In the spirit of full disclosure, I’m going to talk about money a bit. It’s faux pas, especially in the professional blogosphere, but it is the crux of why we’re networking, why we work — the clear motivation for why we do what we do. …

It seems like eons have passed since I was in bootcamp at Flatiron School, bumbling my way through my command line project and hanging on for dear life in my career pivot. Perhaps it’s the pandemic’s ability to distort time, or maybe my ascension into a brilliant role at a…

When I have a chance to decompress and look back at the past week retrospectively, I’m able to see ever so incrementally how progress is being made. It took a few attempts, but once I made a proper change to my cover letter, the interview requests really took off. Perhaps…

One of the most impactful achievements of my career has been my #volunteer work in Louisiana the past two years. I leveraged my time as a #Division1 #athlete and #coach to help high school kids in #Louisiana get scholarships and connected with universities. In my spare time, I go around…

I’ve begun work in the world of understanding and comprehending data structures and algorithms. As a budding developer, I find this work rewarding as well as exhausting, necessary though perhaps I’m diving in a little too deep considering the work I’ll be doing. I’m learning about time complexity, and it’s…

I’ve gone back and forth on this. Last week, I talked about how I was going to completely rebuild my final project that I finished a few weeks ago at Flatiron — Code Wanderer . Turns out, I could retroactively make it mobile responsive. Whacking through thousands of lines…

While my final project for Flatiron is sleek on first glance, it resembles Cyberpunk 2077 in that it only looks great in the best circumstances. My project Code Wanderer is a React / Redux resource hub for new programmers. It lets users add resources like .PDFs and memes about programming…

This is my first official week on the job search. Normally I am extraordinarily social and a real ham. As I approach people to network and reach out, I find myself on the shy side for once. A few things have stood out as I began to seek contacts and…

In a few hours I will be a graduate of Flatiron’s online software engineering bootcamp. So many times throughout this voyage, I wanted to quit. I was convinced that I had no idea what was going on and I’d never be a great programmer. Imposter syndrome was a reality for…