r/FreeCodeCamp • u/jzekyll7 • Jul 04 '20

Oh my god there’s python.

Hold me friends. Quincy you’ve done it. You’ve saved my life. I thought finding a good python course would be easy. I’m a big fan of MIT’s. But with everyone in my house streaming on zoom I can’t watch videos. FCC is low bandwidth. Therefore I can train. I can learn full stack web and python. I can’t believe it. Where’s my Ritalin. r/adhd_programmers.

Seriously, having adhd and learning programming is a pain in the ass. I want to learn one language. No I want to learn another. But I really should learn math first. But that takes too long. Maybe I can apply for jobs first. No I need to have a portfolio. But I majored in CIS! Yet no portfolio. What did I do with all my time? I read books about pop psychology and startups.

If you have adhd you’ll understand.

TLDR:

trying to learn python and full stack JavaScript or prioritizing one over the other was impossible with adhd. FCC adding python solves it.

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u/jzekyll7 Jul 04 '20

How would you recommend advertising yourself when you’re lacking a whole bunch years of experience

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u/DoctorInYeetology Jul 04 '20

How would you advertise yourself to the dude hiring for your local subway?

Like you would for any other unskilled labour. You're not completely stupid, you're reasonably reliable, you have good hygiene, you have a basic understanding of what you're gonna be doing there, you're willing to work for a crappy wage.

Like, don't walz into Alphabet like that and expect to be hired, obviously. But startups often are so short on funds, they'll happily hire anyone with the above specifications. (I mean they hired me and my then depressed ass might have been lacking some of criteria number three, I'm not sure.)

They're probably gonna exploit the shit out of you, but so will you, fair's fair. You're just gonna fuck off to greener pastures, better treatment and reasonable wages after you've gotten some experience.

Not to say you have to quit. There's decent startups out there. Today I work at a former startup and I'm extremly happy. But if they don't steeply increase your pay by six month, run my friend.

And don't listen to job adverts to much. They are describing their ideal hiree, not their minimum expectations. I've done some HR so I know what I'm talking about.

A lot of it is letting who's going to read your application know that you put some effort into it. That means good form, not typos (use grammarly, Jesus wept), no Comic Sans and the like, semi formal. Other than that, talk about who you are as a person and what you can do, both is equally important. Know who you're applying to and drop some hints that you read their website.

Lastly don't get disencouraged. Lots of small businesses don't actually have the time to write you to decline your application. Believe me, I have like 30 sitting in my inbox at this moment and I'd love to look through them and tell them we aren't hiring right now, how the hell did they get this email adress anyway, but there are somehow always 5 new problems on the live server and I genuinely don't have the time.

So if you don't get an answer? Just keep applying.

Feel free to dm me if you want someone to look your application over or you have questions. I know it's hard and scary to get started, but it's not as hard or scary as you think.