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How to Use Twitter to Beat Your Social Anxiety and Land Your First Job, with Scrimba Student Trecia
🎙 About the episode
Meet Trecia Kat 🇿🇦! Trecia is a new developer from South Africa who originally wanted to work in healthcare. She eventually decided to study IT, but she dropped out of college when it turned out that online resources were better! Today she's a front-end developer. She got her feet wet in the world of Developer Advocacy, she beat her social anxiety, and she even spoke at a conference!
In this episode, you'll learn why passion doesn't mean you'll be great at something - and how to recognize what you can actually be great at. Trecia tells us how she learned to code, overcame her fear of interacting with people she doesn't know, and landed her first developer job. Twitter was essential for Trecia's journey - she will teach you how to use it to get out of your comfort zone and what Tech Twitter tropes to ignore. You will also hear about Trecia's DevRel internship at Strapi and how she ended up speaking at a conference by trying not to speak at a conference.
🔗 Connect with Trecia
🧰 Resources Mentioned
- freeCodeCamp
- Learn Javascript for free on Scrimba
- Trecia at Next.JS
- Intro to artificial intelligence and Developer Relations with Pratim Bhosale
- Pratim Bhosale on Twitter
- TraversyMedia on Youtube
- Scrimba Podcast: How to get started in Developer Relations according to Head of Developer Relations Phil Leggetter
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