I’m not sure it’s sunk in yet, but that doesn’t really matter. I got a job - a dev job. My days with the Sarasota Orchestra, at least as a full time member, are over. This is a journey I started about four years ago this month. There were/are many reasons I decided to make this change, but that belongs in its own blog post.
How it happened was somewhat what I expected. Where it happened was definitely a surprise. The fact that I’m able to stay in Sarasota was not really on my radar. I was thinking New York, DC, Austin would be the place. In early July 2017, I was looking through my email, as I did multiple times daily, and saw ‘Javascript Developer, Sarasota, FL’. I didn’t read anything after that before I hit apply. As I told my friends, it wouldn’t have mattered if the position was for a Senior Javascript Architect - I was going to apply.
After two phone interviews, two in-house interviews (all of which I felt pretty good about), I was offered a three week trial. That then turned into an offer of full employment.
And, of course, in the middle of almost 100% of this process was Lambda School. My second bootcamp in three years (along with the soon to be defunct Dev Bootcamp), Lambda School is focused on front end development with React as well as full stack Node development - exactly what I want to do. And I was extremely grateful they allowed me to shift into the evening only part time course.
It’s been strange going to a job knowing that I have SO MUCH to learn, but one of the most important skills I have learned is to be comfortable being uncomfotable.
More to come…