Advice to our Past Selves

Welcome to season 3 of the LB podcast. This season we’ll cover topics ranging from advanced JavaScript to networking. We’ll chat about Git & GitHub, making money outside your 9-5 job, and many more topics.

For our first episode of this new season, we’ll be reminiscing about our coding history and discussing some advice we wished we had when learning to code ranging from asking more questions to negotiating job offers.

01:50 - Our stories
09:29 - Find a community
10:43 - Take breaks - you don’t have to code all the time
13:36 - Ask questions
16:50 - Overcome imposter syndrome
18:09 - Sharing your learning journey can help not only yourself but others too
20:24 - Surround yourself with people who support you
21:33 - Don’t get stuck in the cycle of tutorials
23:28 - Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
25:02 - Ask for feedback early and often
26:23 - Stop being such a perfectionist
28:06 - Document your learning journey
30:00 - Learn how to Google
31:45 - Different ways to learn
32:32 - Try to be honest w/ ur manager
34:42 - Celebrate your small wins
35:20 - Interview to challenge yourself
36:54 - Talk to people who have your dream job
38:04 - Negotiate offers
40:20 - You can be a people person in tech
41:40 - Don’t fall into shiny object syndrome
42:21 - You belong in the industry

Learning How to Learn episode
Byteconf React Keynote
FreeCodeCamp
Moving Past Tutorials
Cacher
Stay Home Take Care

Transcript

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