Hello there!
Do you want to start your journey into the Tech space? I want to share some tips that's helping me in my journey in to what is becoming the largest ecosystem at the moment, Which I think could help anyone who wants to start their journey.
But before that, I want to let you into how my journey into Tech started, my progress, and my projections.
HOW IT STARTED
Before 2020, I was totally unaware about opportunities in the Information Technology (IT) space, I couldn't tell who a Software Engineer was, what a Software Engineer does, how ideas can be turned into Tech solutions, and how the least website or apps were built and technologies used it building them. But thankfully, I became half aware of all these things in 2020.
It all started in when I was listening to one of the popular radio stations channel in my city (Aba). I overheard a Jingle playing over the radio; it was an NGO (Non-governmental Organization) in my state advertising on a free training on website development with certificate and start-up kit at the end of the program. I hurriedly registered, after all the whole registration process, luckily, I got admitted.
Furthermore, as a newbie, I started off with no laptop, went through the entire huddles of assessments without any tool to practice at home, got stacked at some points, to the extent I wanted to quit, but you know what? I didn't, I pushed through and at the end, I graduated.
MY PROGRESS SO FAR
- I have been able to identify and join tech communities in my local space and beyond.
- I'm currently enhancing my skills in JavaScript.
- I have had the opportunities of meeting a lot of senior developers and mentors in the Ecosystem, share ideas and
values.
- I'm building little projects, which I will be sharing links to them very soon.
MY PROJECTIONS
- I am looking forward to becoming a full stack JavaScript Developer Before the end of the year.
- Use the available technologies at my disposal to build products that will solve real time problems.
Tips that will help you in your journey into the tech space
- Identify your niche and pursue it; the tech space is very large and broad, you can choose to become whatever you want to become, but finding the right path that'll work for you and following it (learning) is the best way to go.
- Learn and master the path you followed; One thing is to learn a skill, another is to be good at it. After discovering the path you'd want to follow, master it, and try as much as possible to become the best in it.
- Join Tech Communities; learning a skill is not enough to survive in the Tech ecosystem. There are thousands of tech communities in your locality, identify with them, become part of them, be active in their community, share values and ideas with them and leverage the opportunities they provide to improve yourself and become better.
- Build projects and products; Use your skill to proffer solutions to problems in your environment, turn those solutions you're offering into paying businesses and make a living from it.
- Market yourself; The best to way to stay relevant in the Ecosystem is to share what you do with people, tell people about what you do, thankfully social media is here to help you achieve these. Use your social platform to sell market your skills and make the best of it.
Thanks for reading and engaging
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