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Welcome my tech journey

As a software engineer you are learning everyday. It can be scary and the where to even start can be tricky. I never thought i’d be able to get back into tech without a degree but it is possible. This is just my journey on how I managed it.

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WFH – paper anniversary

As we all pass our quarantine paper anniversary and we celebrate the majority of us getting the C19 vaccine I thought i’d take a look at my past year and how far I’ve progressed. A year a go I was half way through the Nology course and when our practice WFH day turned into the…

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Week 1 😍

This week I finally started my new role as a Junior Software Engineer. It has been a very interesting week. My laptop didn’t arrive until Tuesday evening so the first few days were spent doing some self teaching and i built a small Django project. Wednesday was spent setting up my new laptop and getting…

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Finally it worked!

I had given up on React and just tried to work around not being able to use it but after a talk with someone on LinkedIn I decided to try one more time. So after weeks of not being able to get it to work I finally fiddled around enough and got it to install!…

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The top 5 tips I was given as a junior:
1. Google is not cheating and even senior developers google daily
2. There’s no shame in asking for help, most people will happily give you a hand
3. Imposter syndrome is a real thing but don’t forget how far you’ve come from day 1
4. Looking at the same problem for hours will not help, take a break a solution might come to you later
5. Practice as much as possible

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