I totally agree

Awesome! Thank you!

best of luck! it's a great career!

Thanks for sharing! Best wishes!

Good job finishing the bootcamp and best of luck with the interviews!

So long as you don't lie to get there, having these feelings means you are in a job that will help you grow your skills and career. So, best of luck with your future journey!

Glad you liked it!

thanks for the feeback!

Welcome aboard!

Glad you enjoyed it!

It's like a firehose a lot of the time.

thanks for sharing your story!

good insights. thanks for sharing!

Paired? Like can you explain

@@keylanoslokj1806 two people coding together.

@@jamescross isn't it better for absolute noobs to freelance first? Cause they are way unprepared for a team

@@keylanoslokj1806 On it's surface it sounds like a good idea and if you can pull it off great. You'll be all the better for it. But, freelancer means you have to be the expert at everything. On a team, you're probably working on a small piece of a large app. That said, while looking for a job, do whatever you can to get experience. Rather than wait around, you could try freelancing on simpler projects.

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@jamescross Yep, there was a lot of thoughts that echoed myself (went back to school and finished a BS in past year, trying to get into the dev field myself - have pretty much all the self-doubts you checked off lol).

Glad you enjoyed!

Best of luck!

Glad it was helpful!

thanks. best of luck!

that is cool

That's the big lie about bootcamps Their marketing tells the lie that CS don't code. Good programs require completed co-ops to graduate

I started a channel 2.5 years ago and did like 5 videos that really sucked. Scrapped that and started another channel just to make some video around cameras as I tried things out. Made around 25 videos, most of which have issues. Thought I was ready to start this channel based on the original topic and the early videos aren't great. Each video I release there is usually something I realize I would do differently right after it goes live so I make a note and change it. Takes awhile to pick up on the littles things. It's a lot like coding. You'll look back on most things you've done and see things you would do differently. Also, I now try to be efficient and make effects or things that I can reuse. For complicated stuff, I am happy to buy high quality plugins when possible to leverage other peoples skills as my full time job is software not editing. I've spent too much time doing those myself (mostly the animated titles though they still take tweaking to personalize them to my look and feel. but then I can copy it from one video to the next and make smaller edits).

@@jamescross Yes please dont give up!!

@@eccentworld3611 don't plan to. thanks for watching!

@@jamescross Very insightful! Thank you for the thoughtful reply! ^^ I've been enjoying your content a ton lately, and I look forward to seeing more!

You got this!

@@jamescross❤️❤️❤️ you have a new subscriber❤️❤️❤️

One advice, Building webapps with vanilla JS suks and it will become boring. Just learn the basics of JS. How to manipulate arrays, objects, how classes works, async JS. And start working with framework ( React will change your life and you will love JS ). Don't bother with document.querrySelector(#BS). You probably won't use it. Also when you take the react course start building your personal app in parallel with the course.

nice

Great to hear! Where in Brazil?

@@jamescross city ​​of Bauru, SP.

ok. i've been to Manaus a couple of times but never Bauru.

@@jamescross wow, cool, have you visited the free zone of manaus?

@@heitorcesarino i flew into manaus, then to apui, then drove to vila do carmo then took a small boat up the aripuana river to the guariba river. it was all rainforest. did that twice. ended up here: www.google.com/maps/place/7%C2%B045'40.6%22S+60%C2%B033'47.1%22W/@-7.7612769,-60.6329369,30149m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m27!1m20!4m19!1m6!1m2!1s0x924f32cb62707eb5:0x69b5ab64218381e8!2sAeroporto+de+Apu%C3%AD+-+Rodovia+Transamaz%C3%B4nica+-+Apu%C3%AD,+State+of+Amazonas,+Brazil!2m2!1d-59.8391313!2d-7.1729167!1m6!1m2!1s0x9249a99ecad5a789:0x4aa7f3b0f892851d!2sLanchonete+da+Maria+-+BR-230+-+Apu%C3%AD,+AM,+69260-000,+Brazil!2m2!1d-60.6695846!2d-7.5235212!1m3!2m2!1d-60.5870223!2d-7.7091831!3e0!3m5!1s0x0:0xa7376e1740711934!7e2!8m2!3d-7.7612766!4d-60.5630914 I did spend a couple of days in manaus. saw the old opera building and went to some of the marketplaces.

thanks for watching!

That's what I felt too.

Glad you liked it

Awesome! Congrats on the new job!

@@jamescross is it worth getting a degree? I have gotten an offer to a university, but don't know if it's worth it. I'm already 3 and a half months self taught. Thanks!

@@jplaza7210 only you can decide if it's right for you. for me, if i could go back in time i would get a cs degree instead of history. i enjoyed college and would do it again, just a different degree. since i already had a degree it didn't make financial sense to do it again. a lot will also come down to work expectations where you live. i know it's a hard decision, but even if you change your mind, you still have a lot of time in life to pivot and find success.

Glad you like them! I have a post on why I prefer to keep communications here on youtube... kzfaq.infoUgkxuNQOPQ8CsY3NV2FZlTrl2WXibWu6mRMa

I will surely check it out... I really want you advice on something. I need help and guidance. I really want to change my career from a field technician and become a software engineer. I would love it if you can provide any info on where to start and any resource that may help me. Anything will really be appreciated 🙏 thanks buddy

The videos in this playlist are a good place to start: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndKXoMSnsL3LY40.html

thanks!

Most welcome

It's a sign you are self aware and doing things that stretch you. If you had walked into your second job and it felt 100% comfortable, then you would have probably picked a bad job for career growth. Keep it up!

@@jamescross thanks for your words! I will! Keep up too, your videos are excellent!

@@jamescross Hey, a quick update. My learning curve got insanely high and i'm fully onboarded in my new job now :) It got way better when I was a little more into it :)

@@nosolutionx33 That's awesome! Thanks for the update! I too like jobs that push me to be better.

Welcome to the journey Artie!

Thanks! Just stumbled on your videos a few days ago and can’t stop watching them. Love all the tips and information you give. Subbed!

Glad you like them!

thanks. i had fun with it.

Just teasing my fellow devs... for fun. 🤣

:)

Best wishes on the new journey!

@@jamescross thanks!

good point. there are those types of companies out there. plenty of them.

@@jamescross Yes, and they assume that you will do front,back, db management and It support for minimum wage. if you dont realize that this is not good (maybe because you were new to this world or needed a job urgent), do not stay for more than a year or two or else it will get hard to get another job on a good place

What's the language? Qbasic , pascal ? It might be good and you aren't powerful enough to wield its power...

Keep at it! It just takes that one!

There are those days.

Interviews are indeed stressful. You have to demonstrate your skills. That usually means you put together a portfolio of projects and apps you have built yourself that you can show to prospective employers. Then you try to get a job and anyplace that will hire you. It probably won't pay super well. After a year or two, bounce to a better job with better pay.

Also, you should not put common, everywhere found TODO apps and tutorial-like code in your portfolio. Try to come up with an idea you see useful and enjoy working on it. Companies and senior devs love to see that you can have original ideas and not just copy pasting skills from tutorials :)

@@kHRISl33t yup

Best wishes with the change!

@@jamescross thank you...those hot aisles are no joke

yup.

As in you can relate?

@@jamescross ummm. So, I am not yet in the tech field, but I start a nucamp 14week bootcamp this coming Monday. All the different considerations/difficulties are a bit stressful. Haha. I honestly just need a remote job so I can live abroad, preferably Mexico. I'm Mexican American, and I think living in Mexico will offer the best quality of life for me, and my future family. I would like to avoid high stress though. Haha.

@@Agustin-jo8mv With any job there are going to be stresses. Software is no different. But honestly, I feel like I have a ton of flexibility and can live comfortably so it's been worth it. I work with people from all over the world, so sounds like you have a good plan. Best of luck on the journey!

usually 8 sometimes I get so focused that I go over.

@@jamescross would you say all 8 is on a computer coding ?

Nope. I also have tons of meetings, help plan future tickets, come up with designs, participate in trainings, administrative tasks. How much code varies from day to day and feature to feature. Some features are straight forward others can require a lot of thinking and planning.

thanks

glad you enjoyed it!

I'm 47, I doubt it will work for you . You should drop all the web stuff and focus on data and analytics.

@@jakepyrett1715 why do you think that?

@@nevarimpossible8532that’s what I would like to know

I've touched on it in a couple of videos, but I'll add it to my video idea list.

@@jamescross I'll track them down. One idea for a video is about creating your first portfolio website. Assuming you just got done with courses in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, what kinds of things would companies look for, things like that.

@@midknight3350 Am very interested in this question of yours about the very first portfolio. I quit my chemical engineering job to learn code. Everyone except 1 are telling me I am making a mistake. This is my second month into self teaching. Please @devsmak help us know what we must include in our first ever portfolio. Btw coming to you from way in Uganda, East Africa

gotta tease my buddies 😉

:)

There will be ups and downs. It's not all rosy like some people paint it. But overall, it's been a great career.

@@jamescross for sure. I liked the video tbh. In IT atm and can relate to an extent.