Transitioning into Tech: The Journey of a Senior Junior Developer
summary
A career changer becomes a developer at 40 after joining Hack Your Future coding school, lands a front‑end job at a sustainable‑finance startup, then learns Java to become full‑stack when back‑end staff are cut, and now contributes to customate.ai. Concrete takeaways: language barriers limit local hiring, meta‑imposter syndrome is common, prior nontech roles provide transferrable skills (attention to detail, organization), and simple encouragement plus clear, jargon‑light explanations dramatically improve onboarding and retention.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Career transition into tech
- 1:46Personal journey into development
- 3:53Why switch to development
- 7:42Senior junior developers and imposter syndrome
- 10:30Supporting senior junior developers
- 11:55Closing remarks
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