From Teaching to Coding: How I Changed Careers
Thursday 19th September 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment
This month our very own Darren Jones (AKA Daz) will share his story:
At the start of this year I took the big decision to change careers from teaching to Rails development. I decided I wanted to turn my hobby Ito a career and while It was quite daunting at first, the decision paid off after 4 months when I got offered a job as a Ruby on Rails developer. Since then I haven’t looked back and have loved every minute of my new career. In this talk I’ll go through why I did it, how I did it, what I learnt and what honest advice I’d give to someone looking to get into web development.
About the speaker
Daz is a Rails developer for Yozu, a development company based in Liverpool. Before this he taught Maths and Computing at a high school in Manchester while pursuing web development as a hobby. He has written numerous articles for SitePoint and 3 books: Jump Start Sinatra, JavaScript Novice to Ninja and Learn to Code with JavaScript.
Schedule
- 6:30pm: Doors open
- 7:00pm: Doors close (don't be late!)
- 8:30pm: We leave the Chroma offices for a local pub for more Ruby chat
Don't forget all parts of our event, including the post-talk pub time, is covered by our code of conduct.
Registration
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