Thread by @techieEliot

@techgirl1908 Attended a few meetups
Formed a study group in a discord and learned git
Went through fCC together to the end of HTML/CSS cert
Group dropped off, but I went through JS data structures cert
Built a WordPress site for a church friend's biz
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@techgirl1908 Volunteered at a conference and at a non-profit
Formed a fCC meetup for newbies
Volunteered to teach underrepresented minorities HTML/CSS/JS
Went to a bootcamp to learn how to use Node + MySQL with React
Non-profit leader that I volunteered for referred me to her friend
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@techgirl1908 Recruited the smarties two friends in bootcamp and my instructor to build the app for the client
Got a second client
Crushed phase I for first client
Applied to over 300 places, rejected by most
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@techgirl1908 Dm'ed a guy on twitter from his tweet looking for Vue devs and got some WP contract work
Dm'ed a local guy on LinkedIn got WP contract work
Learned I hated WP and focused only on getting react work
Applied to over 300 more places, rejected by most
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@techgirl1908 Got a stipend to teach teenage girls about the magic of code
Made 4 great projects and one amazing client project
Learned how to make a LinkedIn profile from Danny Thompson (stopped applying places and now had 1-4 interviews each weekday)
Landed at Lowe's

@techgirl1908 Biggest takeaways:
- Form virtual study groups and/or meetup
- Volunteer/network
- Bootcamp
- Seek referrals for contract work
- Build fCC projects and live client projects
- Fail a bunch of interviews (use take home projects for portfolio)
- Learn how to make a linkedin profile

@techgirl1908 From beginning to end it was about two years of intense work from HTML to React.

From beginning of bootcamp to job it was a year.

From end of bootcamp to first job it was about 8 months.

Hustle. Build your skills, build your reputation, build your network all at the same time.