Hired in Week 29

As I write this post it is week 30 of my journey in learning and I have completed 570 hours of my developing journey. I started keeping track of my code about 2 weeks in after reading the book No Degree No Problem by Josh Kemp. After reading the entire book, at work, I created this blog.

In the book Josh mentions that he learned Rails in 8 months of learning how to code on his own to then land a job as a Junior Developer with only 827 hours of learning. In addition to writing this blog I also created a coding log in a Google Doc and recorded every hour I used to learn Ruby. I named the spreadsheet 827 hours as a reminder that I needed to push myself to get at least 3 hours per day in learning, so much that some weekends were consumed code review  and error debugging. My goals was to have a Jr developer position within 1 year, October 31,2014 and was later changed to May after I completed Boc.

As of Friday I received an offer for a full-time Rails position at a company in the state I am in and it took 568 (7months) hours to do it. *I do not mention the amount hours because of competition, but to put in perspective that anyone can do this. I worked 40+ a week and put in 35 hrs a week coding.

No more sales, Now more rails was my tweet earlier today, Because I will now be spending 40 hours a week writing code and not dreaming about it while doing sales. I hope to continue to push myself past that "senior" level position into something pretty awesome.

*This blog is about 5 times longer and was starting to look like a book. I will be breaking it into multiple blog posts and have them released separately, so subscribe to the RSS or my Twitter to get the full developing story of how I got my first dev job.


Thanks and Attributions in no particular order:
@madibird
@bnlson
+horvathlg
@ashfinator
+Erik Trautman
TheOdinProject
@trybloc
+Adam Louis
@AncientCityRuby
@jdotvazquez
@joshuakemp01
@surgerunner
@onemonthrails
@jterrell
@hopefulwebdev
@kiy_tang
@_russellb
@Allolex
@ByENNEN
@kytrinyx
@thedevme
Tampa Ruby Brigade
@jesus
@parndt
+everyone who reads this blog!
...I am sure there are more, but I could not make it this far without the encourage and support I got from you.

If anyone is interested hearing more of my story, I might do another Q&A on Youtube or Reddit, if there is enough interest.