How I began my career as a Software Engineer: A brief story.

One day I, based on a feeling I had, decided to become a Software Engineer so I enrolled in a software engineering program at a local community college. It was tough, very tough and I thought about quitting. When I was tasked with my final coding project a thought came to mind. I decided not to follow the book or most of the guidelines instead I would seek to understand the problem fully and write out how the program should work. It turns out that I did so well that my instructor sent my program to every Computer Science instructor on campus and colleagues he knew outside of work. He asked them to attempt to break my program but no one could. My instructor told me this and said he took 1 point off of my project for not following the book and some of the rules laid out but he added 2 points because I created a solid program that no one was able to break. Lol.

4 years later I found my dream job working for one of the top wireless companies in the world. I earn a salary over 6figures and work remotely. I began as Javascript engineer but am now learning Swift & Kotlin at work as part of the mobile team which is awesome because I always wanted to dive into native and now I get that chance.

I encourage you continue and not give up...stay the course if you believe this is the right choice for you.

Thanks for reading
Happy coding