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About this talk
In the early 2010s I was working in tech support, struggling to support a family, and watching the developers in my ...
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Heyo! If you have any questions for Noćnica (@serverlessmom ) please drop them here! 🙏
We're gathering up these questions for the live speaker discussion coming up later on. 📣
I am curious on strategies for how to figure out what you are good at. When focused intently on one goal (becoming a developer), it seems hard to try out different hats. Would you recommend getting into a career space before exploring different avenues within it?
Really my recommendation there was to think about combining development with something you were good at before you started learning to code. Even if it's not something you got paid for, just think about the work, or work-like activities, that you really enjoyed.
If you enjoyed schmoozing while tending bar, developer Advocacy might be for you.
If you were always the one who planned your family vacation itinerary, complete with timetables and meal plans, you might want to think about project management.
Or if you liked selling, making deals, and growing your paycheck with hard work and high performance, maybe Solutions Architect is the right role.
This plus what you said during the discussion are such helpful and insightful things to hear. Really helps clarify how to think about directions to take, many thanks for your response and talk
Hello hello! I'd love to hear a bit on the live discussion about why you were drawn to write about and work in the serverless space! And also a quick explanation of serverless for those who might not be familiar. Thanks!
Nocnica, great point on the point in time matters when listening to advice on getting work!
Mental health issues can make things harder for us to manage our career trajectories, even though we're all high functioning in living with our own struggles. <3
Go to therapy++. I love this advice! It doesn't change you except to make you care better for yourself, maybe become more of yourself. It doesn't have to stop your goals. It will help you achieve them.
Thank you!
Nočnica I'm a non-binary aspiring dev who's worked as IT support for the past 8 years and not particularly enjoyed it. I'm not out at work due to an explicitly queerphobic boss but I don't have a strong educational background so I feel stuck in the job because the money is decent (but not developer money) and I need health insurance for my own mental health reasons. Thanks for this talk, all the advice was solid and it felt good to see that it's a career transition that's feasible. I'd love to connect more if you wouldn't mind! I followed you on Twitter, I'm @whatnotery !
How do newbies in the software development field determine their monetary value?
Here's a couple places I found:
Stack Overflow's Calculate Your Salary stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary
Indeed's Find Salaries indeed.com/career/salaries
Thanks @stevenyholm ! :D
Oh nice! Thanks for the links Steve!
I would also like to know this
I'm on that road right now trying to get my first job in tech. I'm just coming out of Bootcamp with Flation. One of the biggest thing I'm trying to work on right now is start to grow my connections
"I missed connecting with people"
Yes! This is what lead me to Developer Advocacy as well. Coding is fine but I like the "people side" of code more.
Woah! Feels like I am getting some real knowledge out here :D
Thanks Nočnica for the talk.
Thanks so much for sharing your story. It's actually so hard for me to choose and concentrate on only few things and not to be overwhelmed by different frameworks and languages. But I guess one just needs to set priorities to actually be good at smth. Especially when you are quite a beginner in the field you are diving in.
Thank you for sharing your very personal journey, @serverlessmom .
I really appreciate it.
As a developer advocate, what is it exactly that you do?
Thanks again, @serverlessmom .
Thank you for sharing your story!
I found your story very valuable and also appreciated your discussion of capitalism. Thanks!
Hey Nocnica How can I reach out to you? I tried to find a way to message you and cannot find any