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Homeschooler, College Dropout, Developer and Master Networker: Crush Your Career with Madison Kanna
🎙 About the episode
Meet Madison Kanna 🇺🇸! She's a front-end developer and a creator of a coding book club. She's also a college dropout, a master networker, and a former homeschooler. In this episode, you'll learn about her fascinating journey and get a lot of good, actionable advice!
Madison will teach you how to figure out what you are actually interested in and how to keep pursuing it. You'll learn about her journey to becoming a developer and how being homeschooled helped her in the early days of her coding career.
Also in this episode: Why do companies want juniors with experience, and what did Madison do to go around it? Do you get any better at personal branding if you get a domain with your name at the age of nine? Why is it important to work on production code? How to stand out if you don't have a degree?
Madison also shares how a single tweet turned being laid off into the best experience of her life!
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🧰 Resources Mentioned
- Scrimba Podcast: From Doctor to Developer, with Jefferson Tang
- Scrimba Podcast: Becoming a Standout Developer with Randall Kanna
- Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Blog post: Why I'm Glad I Grew Up Playing Neopets
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