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Cooking Up a Career Change: Overcoming Burnout and Finding Your Why with Scrimba Student Jimmy
🎙 About the episode
Meet Jimmy Johnston 🇺🇸! Jimmy is a sous-chef turned developer who's just landed his first developer job after working in the culinary industry for twenty years! The career change took Jimmy eleven months. It also involved going through burnout, figuring out his "why," as well as hitting a dead-end with job applications and changing the strategy from the ground up! In this interview, Jimmy will let you in on all of these things so that you can learn from his experience.
You'll find out the similarities between cooking and computing, how Jimmy learned to code, and why you shouldn't try to learn too many technologies at once. Jimmy also talks you through his interview process so that you can figure out at what point you are ready to apply for a similar position.
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🧰 Resources Mentioned
- Scrimba Bootcamp
- Front-end Developer Career Path
- Scrimba's Discord Community
- Book: How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us
- Kevin Powell
- Scrimba Podcast: An Introvert's Guide to Networking (and Becoming Amazing at LinkedIn), with Stephanie Chiu from PayPal
- Scrimba Podcast: Homeschooler, College Dropout, Developer and Master Networker: Crush Your Career with Madison Kanna
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