My Journey Into Tech
Tags: webdev, beginners, javascript, programming
Published: 2022-09-26 21:07:26


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While growing up I've generally envisioned myself as one who makes things, a little Divine force of some kind. So, I frequently considered ways of being that individual.

During the days of my high school, I joined a poetry club and as time passed by, I composed wonderful sonnets and performed at lovely spots and I was cheerful, however I wasn't fulfilled.

I mean I wrote wonderful things of beauty right? that ought to qualify me to be some kind of god who makes lovely things with words, right? In any case, that fulfillment wasn't there.

After my secondary school, I enlisted to GreenValue, a computer institute within my vicinity, to get a recognition in software engineering, I studied there for more than 2 months and at a point I needed to end my studies there since I was defaulting in my installments, I felt miserable and devastated, however what else was there to do? I wasn't working. 

Perhaps, in the event that I had some work I would proceed with my studies. Thus, I went in search of a job and a friend of mine took me to this seminar where he said they'd give us a job thereafter.

We went there and it was this marketing job where they'd give you an item to sell, and you'd need to refer individuals so your position would go up, the more individuals you allude to joining the program the more open doors you get.

Furthermore, I wasn't great at marketing, talk more of alluding individuals to participate in something I wouldn't appreciate doing.

So, throughout the seminar, the coordinators addressed us in turns, and when he got to mine, he enlightened me concerning the work and asked for my thoughts, and I asked what issue they were tackling, I wasn't happy with the response I got, and furthermore told them briefly about Mark Zuckerberg how he found an issue almost everyone is facing, settled it with tech and presently he's one of the most richest and influential individuals on the planet. 

By then the coordinator advised me to go, he realized my vision wasn't there, my vision was in the tech industry, that was where the vision got more clear.
I was unable to return to GreenValue to proceed with my course since I got admission to the higher institution where I continued with studying computer science.

After my graduation I sought for further knowledge  as the tech space is developing and what we were taught in school appears to be a little obsolete. 

Then, at that point, I found CodeLab, a computer institute that teaches you for free to become a full stack software engineer. I applied to the school and was picked out of more than hundreds that applied.

Getting into the school we weren't simply taught software engineering skills, we were additionally taught design thinking skills, project management skills  and transformational leadership skills. 

That is substantially more than I had anticipated.
Just quite a while back, I was unable to proceed with my studies at my past institute since I was unable to bear the cost of the bill and was taught very little.

Then, after a short while, I got into another institute that taught me and is teaching me still, what they would have taught me and considerably more for apparently nothing.

**_See how sometimes unfortunate things happen for something beautiful to sprout in one's life?_**