Pivoting! After graduating with a degree in Communications / Advertising from CSU I've worked plenty of digital jobs:
- Social Media and Digital Info Manager at Public Transport Victoria
- Online Community Manager at Redbubble
- Digital CS at Redbubble
- Digital Advertising Coordinator at Pacific Magazines / Yahoo
- Digital Media Coordinator at OMD
And now I'm attending a 6 month coding bootcamp at
Coder Factory Academy. This course concludes in March 2017, after which time I'll be applying for junior web dev jobs.
I've always liked tinkering with code and solving problems. This bootcamp is me taking it seriously, studying my tail off, and moving into professional web development!
Yep! Much to my girlfriend and parent's dismay I'm taking 6 months off work to:
- Learn Ruby and Rails
- Decimate my savings
- Absorb HTML and CSS
- Grow a sweet beard (maybe)
- Wrestle with the MEAN stack
- Complete a 1 month professional internship
- Rediscover my love of Mi-Goreng noodles
- Get a developer job
At the moment, bootcamp is pretty much my life. When I do find a spare second, I like:
