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From Photographer to Developer at 35
Christopher Kühn is a Scrimba student from Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪, who recently got their first Developer job 🎉! At the ripe age of 35 and after 3 arduous years learning to code alongside a full-time job and 70 job applications, this is the interview about how Christopher finally completed the transition from Photographer to Developer. In the conversation, Alex from Scrimba and Christopher talk about changing careers later in life, keeping motivated, and what the job interview process specifically looked like.
🔗 Connect with Christopher
- 👨🏻💼 LinkedIn
- 🌐 Website
- 👩🚀 GitHub
- 🤖 KlarLuCK#1266 on the Scrimba Discord
⏰ Timestamps
- Introduction (00:00)
- Christopher on learning to code at 35 (00:57)
- Christopher's bizarre encounter that made them want to learn React (03:03)
- "The JavaScript Masterplan" (05:49)
- Learning and managing your energy learning to code alongside a full-time job (07:44)
- How to know if you're ready to apply (10:59)
- Christopher worked for free to build a reputation - it worked (14:01)
- Be honest about what you want with recruiters (15:18)
- Remember to subscribe to job alerts by email (16:48)
- How Christopher specifically got this job and what the interview process looked like (19:16)
- Christopher got the job (24:47)
🧰 Resources mentioned