Education Ecosystem Releases the Most In-Demand Technology Skills of H2 2020
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Grace Garcia
Awesome work!
Josh Hendricks
Nice article!
Catherine Dela Torre
I’m a 39 y/o wanting to change careers. For the last 15(ish) years, I’ve been a Paramedic, but I feel I’ve reached the end of that journey. I’ve lost my passion for it and, after some thinking and exploring, have decided I’d like to pursue a coding career.
I studied “Computing” at school and college some years ago and am well aware that things are very different now. Back then, the internet was a fledgling, mobiles didn’t really exist and a career in computers didn’t attract me all that much. Fast forward to now and I find the whole arena fascinating and have been dabbling with various courses - CS50, Treehouse etc. I’m part way through the CS50 course, studying C at the moment and I’m finding it fun , challenging and engaging.
So, on to my question. I was chatting to my boss this week, raising the idea of taking a career break to potentially go and study at a boot camp here in the UK. I was overheard by one of the ladies who works here, but in a different department. Long and short of it, she spoke to her boss and the potential opportunity has arisen to take a secondment within our Business Intelligence department, using SQL to produce reports etc and creating apps using Microsoft Powerapps.
I’m excited by the opportunity, but am not sure whether I should take it or not. What attracts me to coding is the problem solving elements and also the actual coding itself - I even find it quite therapeutic! I’m worried that this will take me into more of an analysis/data analytics side and I’m unsure whether that will align with or support my longer term goals.
Does anyone have any similar experiences to this? Any advice that you could offer would be great!
Thanks all!
Cathy Chua
I've been studying programming / self taught in web development for a while and landed my first dev role but everything is so overwhelmed. I can briefly understand the logic in code base but whenever I want to code.. I feel lost and could not write any codes. I've been thinking maybe programming is just not for me. I spent few hours after work and still can't figure out on my own and I feel painful everyday. My career counselor introduced me mulesoft integration. Is this something I should consider? It seems to require less coding skills. I'm in my late 20s and feel so anxious that I'm not young anymore and still cannot see my career path like.
Ana Angeles
My first dev job was the most stressful thing in the world, but I’m thankful for it. I’m now in a much more stress free environment and actually working on some interesting stuff. Sometimes your first job just isn’t it.
Bianca Baretto
last year I started a programming course.
This course lasts 2 years and due to COVID-19 we lacked some content, but I still passed the first year.
Now, researching some info on SQL and Java programming this summer. Trying to be up to date on my second year. I found myself in a position that I didn't expect me to be in. I don't love programming, I don't like to do it as a hobby. I don't enjoy it as much.
However, I do like working on it. I feel like this is a job that I wouldn't mind working as in a few years. But I kinda feel like everyone who works as a dev/programmer MUSTS take it as a leisure activity aswell.
Fellow students and professionals, share your point of view with me, I feel a bit lost on this. If you really need to have it as a hobby to be able to properly work on it, I don't think I should keep studying this.