Medical School Dropout to Software Engineer in 5 Months - Benjamin Van Nguyen

Medical School Dropout to Software Engineer in 5 Months - Benjamin Van Nguyen | DevPulse Ep. 1

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Today we have a great interview with myself and Benjamin, who graciously volunteered to chat with me for a while about his journey into tech. I found it insightful and I hope you do too!
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@esahoosa Жыл бұрын

I was also medical student and recently dropped out a few months ago to pursue a career in software engineering. Currently doing the Odin Project and enjoy every second of it! Love hearing Benjamin's perspective and his success!

@atafali953 10 ай бұрын

Hey man any updates ?

@p99chan99 Жыл бұрын

People getting into the medical field in universities have to pay significantly higher fees for the courses than other majors already. America has a different and stranger examination system compared to other places, and sometimes last upto 8 hours??, and to top it off the medical sector is overtly capitalistic and focuses on profiting more than saving/helping the people, it's no surprise anyone working in the medical field in America are suspectible of becoming unhappy.

@lilalj07 Жыл бұрын

RN here trying to transition into Software Engineering. Really digging this. Great channel Colby, insightful interview.

@ColbyJaxCodes Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@lemonlimelima Жыл бұрын

I love how he mentioned how his brain couldn’t picture loops and objects right away. I would get stuck on functions so much like I don’t have the right intuition

@almdrs Жыл бұрын

Yes. Loops and objects are hard to understand in the beginning. After a while you take a look at them and think' "I see what's going on here!"

@rheale9420 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this great interview! It was very motivating listening to Benjamin. I have a similar story, was attending Pharmacy school and dropped out after my first year since I had no passion for it. Then I attended a bootcamp and was able to get a job about 5 months afterwards.

@ColbyJaxCodes Жыл бұрын

Thanks for engaging! Connect with me on Linkedin if you'd ever like to chat - I'm trying to collect more motivating stories from people

@mr.ode22 Жыл бұрын

Which bootcamp did you attend?

@rheale9420 Жыл бұрын

@@mr.ode22 I attended a Full Stack Web Development Trilogy boot camp offered by a public university. However, this was before I learned that Trilogy bootcamps don't have a great reputation so I'm unsure if I would personally recommend it. I thought the content was pretty good but there's not much career prep. Bootcamps are expensive so I think it's important to conduct thorough research and to make an informed decision. In my cohort, I think about 5-10 people were able to secure coding jobs within six months, but the outcome may vary based on the effort you put in and some luck. Ultimately, the decision rests with you but hope that was helpful

@mr.ode22 Жыл бұрын

@@rheale9420 Super helpful. Thanks for the reply. I'm going to start my program with Codesmith quite soon. I made sure to research a lot of bootcamps but ultimately decided on this one based on word of mouth, bar of entry, CIRR reports, and the culture I experienced with their free interactive workshops and free prep work.

@syaifulgani Жыл бұрын

Thanks Cloby for this great interview. Mindblowing advice from Benji

@ericcraw Жыл бұрын

Awesome interview - very inspiring and practical advice!

@ColbyJaxCodes Жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric!

@sergiol.3755 11 ай бұрын

great interview

@fk4866 Жыл бұрын

This made me motivated lmao I dropped pre health to go this route and i'm in a bootcamp. def gotta upgrade my skills

@jcruz6888 11 ай бұрын

very good advice from the pharma guy hard to take more than 2 pieces of advice at once to be honest, but good stuff I found the "ignore the noise" advice interesting

@gadiborovich1154 Жыл бұрын

Let’s go Benji!

@bestechdeals4539 Жыл бұрын

Insightful. New subed!

@taterrhead Жыл бұрын

pretty incredible you're already doing this good of interviews man

@ColbyJaxCodes Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@arcanernz Жыл бұрын

Good for Ben he’s definitely driven. I’m sure his work ethic developed during med school and friends networked probably helped. I absolutely agree that diving deep in understanding a particular technology will help you more than learning broadly. But great interview Colby.

@ZimTech97 Жыл бұрын

This was a really good video

@financewithsom485 Жыл бұрын

no one class can replace a doctor and the more old you become the more valuable doctor you become but ai or new young people without any cs degree can come to IT and replace old software engineer making more salary so people if you are going to be doctor dont leave it for quick money in IT.

@BennduR 11 ай бұрын

lol tell that to all the AI doctors passing US medical licensing exams

@bernardcrnkovic3769 11 ай бұрын

@@BennduR passing medical licensing exams have close to 0 correlation with how well they actually perform. same with most kinds of "testing". tests are just baseline filter, it is extremely hard to actually find a good fit for a job. no offense, but AI is nowhere close to human performance in most of the real tasks it is so hyped up today for.

@BennduR 11 ай бұрын

you don't understand at all. do you have any idea how transformer architecture has been shown to scale? no need to answer that, because i know you don't. the LLM based AIs that are passing the US MLEs are in their infancy: it's not AI now you need to be concerned about. you don't need to extrapolate very far into the future to understand the problem. AIs will very soon be able to outperform the most expert humans in their respective fields, as they are already doing so in most. from there it's just a matter of implementation. @@bernardcrnkovic3769