My Story
Tags: career, webdev
Published: 2020-07-27 21:58:58

I am a young guy who is learning to program. 

Fun fact: I love emojis😋

I've always been interested in tech from right from little and I it could be seen that I loved tech. 

I always knew how to operate gadgets even better than the owners themselves without any manual. I'm really passionate about tech. I love everything tech.

I play the keyboard and violin. I've taken  professional exams in violin and passed with distinction so I can say Imma pro….yh I'm really good at it and really love it. I haven't had any in keyboard yet but someday I will…I'm really passionate about music and my instruments just as I am with tech.

It fills my soul.

I always scored high in computer studies in high school….I was the best.
This gave me the opportunity for exposure. I was chosen several times when there were competitions to represent my school.

At the time programming was not part of the curriculum.

I got introduced into animation one competition and another I got introduced into web design.

The experiences shaped me into who I am today.

I was coached and introduced to web design using WordPress, Dreamweaver, basic html and css, Photoshop…

I loved it but left it for a while. After I graduated I wanted to go to school abroad in the US, I applied and was rejected from a lot of schools(my first major rejection), schools I really wanted to get into. I stiffened myself to not feel bad but after applying for visas twice and rejected, depression set in.

The better part is after I graduated I continued learning web development. I volunteered at a small fintech company, and I met people and got an opportunity to learn with others. 

After my second visa rejection I took a break from programming to prep for university exams in Nigeria.

After that, I continued learning, I attended a few tech events that have motivated me a lot and got me connected to the tech twitter community.

I've met diverse people, come across diverse people, diverse ideas.

Some of these people I've met are still a part of my life today and have impacted me in ways I couldn't have imagined.

I'm not perfect but I'm always struggling to be better.

I was accepted to an internship recently, the only one I could apply for.

It's a sprint one and spans ten stages. I was just promoted to stage 7. It's been tough. I've been struggling but I'm hoping to keep getting better so I can make it as a finalist. The experience is great.

In fact the experience is the reason I applied to schools in the US.

Here, internships are only done once in a university timeline. Well,😏 mine is gonna be different...it's already different.

I hope to intern every year on my university timeline. 

One major change that happened to me was while I was in high school.

I was very introverted maybe now I'm just introverted...hehe

My mum convinced me to attend a model United Nations conference and that was the beginning of the change in me. 

I was determined to open up and be better with public speaking...funny thing I did and to me it was humiliating.

I participated actively, was a committee chairperson(who), participated in an election where I had to give a manifesto.

I did poorly 😣 in the election and got no votes...lucky me I was relegated to a lower official, this gave me another opportunity, the next year I returned as an official, I still was very shy...after this conference I got the opportunity to attend the next again as a higher official

These experiences have helped me even now when I go to meetup events I feel.shy sometimes it overcomes me but I also overcome it sometimes and meet people.

There's so much more to my story that you can't tell from this story.