hello everyone my name is TJ and I'm a self-taught software engineer and in this video I'll be sharing with you how I took my salary from thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars a year to over three times that by teaching myself how to code so make sure to subscribe does that be posting coding tutorials and a lot of other tips and resources that you can use to start teaching yourself how to code as well this video is broken into different sections so check the description below for different time stamps in case you want to skip ahead now a quick background on me I was born in Nigeria but I grew up in Dallas Texas I did my undergraduate at UT Austin where I got a bachelor's degree in nutritional science and after that I went to Arizona State University and I got a graduate business degree now all of those degrees are pretty much useless outside of getting me into a lot of student loan debt and it was the stress and pressure of being broke that ultimately drove me to start teaching myself how to code before I started teaching myself how to code I was working as a as a business analyst for a small tech company in Austin where I was making thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars a year so each paycheck was about twelve twelve hundred dollars every two weeks but my student loan payments was about a thousand dollars a month so after paying my student loans I was pretty much just living off with one paycheck the main turning point happened for me when I got a promotion so I got promoted from business analyst to senior business analyst but my salary didn't get a promotion so I went back and forth with the manager asking for a raise and the manager ultimately gave me a raise and my salary went from thirty seven thousand five hundred to thirty nine thousand nine hundred and ninety eight dollars a year and something about them leaving out the edge for two dollars to make my salary forty thousand dollars a year even something about that just kinda really rubbed me the wrong way and I knew right then and there that that this salary was not gonna help me to pay off my student loans quick enough or afford me the type of life that I wanted to live and I decided that day that I was gonna start teaching myself how to code as soon as I made that choice I called my friend that was a software engineer and I asked her if I want to learn to build apps what is the least amount of things that I need to know so she immediately started to tell me about the difference between mobile apps and web apps front end versus back in etc but she also ultimately pointed me towards Ruby and Ruby on Rails as a beginner friendly language and framework to start with and she also told me to check out the course curriculum for different online coding boot camps to see what they were teaching their students so I did just that I found like general assembly and deaf boot camp at the time which doesn't exist anymore but I requested the course curriculum for all of these coding boot camps and I used that to create my own coding curriculum using using a bunch of free online interactive tutorials to help teach me each topic now my dream job at the time was to be a software developer at IBM and and I actually found and found a job post for that role and I printed out that job post name and I wrote on it December NUMBER_TOKEN that was the deadline that I gave myself to make a career switch from being a business analyst to being a software developer so now when it came to study I worked I worked a full-time job from NUMBER_TOKEN:NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN:NUMBER_TOKEN and I would
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