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I really like your apartment 🙂

I love the vlogs!!!! I know they won’t be coming weekly. But I’m here for this inside peek. Is the High Museum thing yearly?

Did you sign the contract before the training or after the training?

Hey I hope you’re doing well. How did you get into Technology Analyst

Hi Kaitlyn, this has been a great video. I loved watching.

Is the 11-week training at Revature good enough to go independent?

I hope u see my question do you have to know any languages or SQL? I cant code or knkw any languages but i have built out systems GHL and other crms

Thanks for your videos, I was just offered a position for Treasury implementation for a major bank. I have degree but no experience with implementation. Would you have any ideal what a fair salary range would be?

Lawd my trip is 11 hours and I don't want to even drive 4 hours. LOL How do you overcome anxiety while driving long distance?

Can we quit after training???

Where did you stay in Memphis? Driving next week and need a safe place to park my Uhaul with a car trailer.

Hi Kaitlin. Fellow Atlantan here, 36 years old, I’m actually graduating in CS from Georgia State in a few weeks. After watching a bunch of RUclips and reading Reddit posts back in 2020 I felt like I had to just bite the bullet and get the degree. Any bootcamp type of resource or Revature/Dev10 type places required some sort of degree. Plus I was still eligible for full Hope scholarship and whatnot. Have you looked into scholarships yet? I feel like you could be eligible for some really good ones. Also at school we have so many clubs and job events for girls who code, black girls who code, women in tech, etc. Ultimately though, you already have experience! I’m here because I’m looking for advice from you. I found your channel because I applied to an implementation consultant job through school and I don’t even fully know what that is yet lol. But it pays really well and is intriguing. Seems like it could be another one of these companies with a lot of downsides. My point is I think you are already much further along than you are telling yourself. Have you tried applying straight up to any other software roles? I’d be surprised if you couldn’t get an interview at Microsoft in ATL if you wanted one. Anyways let me know if I can answer anything about school. Happy to share. You can even have my notes if you need em. Your videos made me feel less alone in this weird struggle, so I really appreciate it!

Good choice. $67k for someone brand new relocating to DC sounds so scary tbh. In ATL your connections and knowledge of the city are probably worth more than the pay difference. But you’re so right, let’s stop calling ATL low COL, we freakin full.

Hi, did you work for skillstorm or not? How was your experience

How long were you in pre employment training

Inspiring and music on point !

I'm watching this in a road-themed double feature with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Nice video. I'm going to Texas to visit family and on the fence about flying vs driving. It's only about a 12 hour drive but I'd be doing it alone in one day. Flying would be about a 5-6 hour trip because it's still a 2+ hour drive from DFW to their house.

This was a very informative video and long overdue! Thank you. Are you currently working in a role in tech now?

I appreciate the transparency and you opening yourself up to criticism. What I'd like to know is what you think of Servicenow Implementation? I got salesforce certified when the market was flooded and it led nowhere. I like the Servicenow platform better so far.

Hi do you know if the jobs you get after training are remote?

Which company was this please?

I have taken an assessment after they put me on unpaid training for 11 weeks. they're saying that we will keep you in paid training based on your performance. why did they give me this unpaid training? will they give me a chance for full-time after my unpaid training?

What would you have focused on if you had the chance to redo your training? Is the training something feasible for people with little to no background? Where did you do most of your studying online? Thanks again!

The chicken head while sitting down with a slight butt wiggle!!! I was smiling looking at this. Love the energy!❤

Currently doing a cross country trip from Columbus, OH to Los Angeles, CA. Currently in Des Moines, IA. Got 4 more driving days left. Thankfully, this is only a one way drive for me.

Very nice video, how do you get music on your videos?

For Computer Science, Harvard a free course on their website where I think you get a certificate and on freecodeacademy they recently posted Harvard’s Computer Science lectures and it’s like 24 hours.

Check out Holberton School

I was 100% self taught. I started my own business in 2009, and met face to face with clients for over 10 years. Eventually I moved and the pay offered to me by corporate dev jobs was close to what I was making with less headache. So I opted into a corporate job, and I was shocked how low of a bar this industry holds for quality work. Agile, scrum, project managers, frameworks galore have all distracted people what a software project can and in my opinion should look like. You'll never have this experience if you go through college, but to go the other route is 10 times harder. The choice is yours.

Ill give general advice because I don’t know what specifically in software engineering you want to go into, but self paced/ self taught programs don’t have as good accountability systems in place so you have to be very disciplined with learning to get something good out of it. They are cheaper than university and you can jump right into making projects. University offers more structured curriculum, you can network with other students(if you go in person) they can be a contact for potential jobs. University also gives you better understanding of fundamental computing principles(data structures, algorithm complexity, operating systems etc). Downside to university is it’s more expensive and you end up taking classes and doing projects that don’t help you with what you end up doing for a career of interview for a job. I’d also say try to get projects that demonstrate the skills you would need for a job you want. For instance if you want to go into back end systems development, code a socket server, and make projects that use libraries and frameworks that the company you are interviewing with works with.

As a professional software engineer specializing in web development with nearly 2 decades of experience what I always tell people when they ask about school vs self teaching is that it depends entirely on yourself. You MUST be honest with yourself. Do you need the structure offered by a university? Do you find yourself chronically procrastinating on things in your life? Self teaching CS can in many ways be superior to formal university education but you must be extremely diligent to see those benefits. You must be very self motivated and most people asking this question are not as self motivated as one needs to be. That being said a good university CS curriculum will teach you all of the foundations you need for computer science and not necessarily software engineering. Most of that foundational CS knowledge is not directly used in web development; those things are very low level to computers and web development is quite abstracted from that. That isn't to say that those things aren't ever useful in fact those things are how you distinguish someone as an expert web developer but if your goal is a job then they can be distractions. If you have the time, a formal CS education can be an extremely good investment especially if you are the kind of person that needs external motivators (nothing wrong with that). As for self teaching it is hard for me to recommend a course/program/etc primarily because I learned without them and so I don't actually have experience with those programs and I know the quality can vary pretty wildly. I'm always a little weary of programs that make guarantees while asking for your money but they can be a good compromise between the external motivation of a formal school and the comfort of self learning. If I were to learn programming over again I would focus on project-based self teaching. I would start by going to youtube and watching a primer video on the extreme basics of web development to learn things like what HTML, CSS and JavaScript are, how the web works and how web projects are setup through things like npm and nodejs. Then with that basic knowledge I would start trying to make projects that are duplicates of programs I already use: text editors, chat programs, time management tools, etc. "Trying" is important here because you will fail and that failure is critical to learning and is something I suspect many web programs accidentally (or deliberately) cause their students to skip/avoid. Every part you fail on is something you should be Googling to figure out. I would avoid things like Stack Overflow because they typically just give the answer without much explanation. You're learning, the explanation is the important part. Become intimately familiar with MDN (documentation), the browser debugger and the browser console. The docs on MDN will hold the majority of the answers to any of your questions, you need only be able to find them. Googling and being able to read documentation is critical to your success as a developer. You will spend a, potentially, surprising amount of time doing those things well into your career. Being able to find the answer is more important than knowing all the answers. Frontendmasters recently published this frontendmasters.com/guides/front-end-handbook/2024/ and I would say that it's quite comprehensive and quite good though I don't know how beginner friendly it is but at the very least the outline on the left can serve as an excellent road map even if the articles they've written on the subject aren't clear to you.

I would love to watch your process! You could share codes you’re learning or explain it to us in simple terms to better understand. Screen sharing sounds like a cool start!

How are you doing! Love to see your face, you have a beautiful smile.

I go to WGU for Software Engineering and really like it. My company pays 100% upfront. It’s self paced as well.

I go to WGU for Software Engineering and really like it. My company pays 100% upfront. It’s self paced as well.

Self paced, part time, online bootcamp. I liked Nucamp 👍🏽

You should self teach, then rejoin Revature, or join a similar one like GenSpark. I completed Revature and enjoyed their program

This is beautiful. My husband and I drive from San Diego, CA to South Carolina twice, and I absolutely loved the drive. We did it in 2.5 days. We stopped in Dallas; Texas is our halfway mark lol.

Revature is a bad company. They business strategy to get you to sign that contract and try to break it so they make you pay that expensive fine. They use IIT college strategy. IIT is the biggest technology school in India but also known for their high suicide rate. When I was working for Revature, I had mental health breakdown and I found something fishing about them.

Web development isn't the only "software engineer" job. Most average wannabe software engineer makes that mistake 😔

Is revature training fully remote now? Thanks.

I was researching Revature last year and came across one of your reviews. I stopped looking into them after watching your video and started self studying with 100Devs. My life has forever been changed as I have learned so so much and am on my way to a software engineering role. Thank you for sharing your story with us and being so real and transparent in the process. You are a gem of a youtuber and deserve way more subs. Keep doing your thing!

I LOOOOVEEE how you transitioned us into your new life update. This was super authentic, and very informal. Keep at it sister! Can't wait to tune in for more!! xoxo❣🤗

Welcome back Kate!! Good to see you on here!

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Welcome back!

I'm sorry but did you say SC ???

Web developers are not software engineers 😅 get it got it good!

my first rode trip for 12 hours i wasn’t scared for , but after a man followed me to my car and tried to get in, im so scared to do it again next month. Im not scared to drive , its gettin out to use the bathroom at rest stops / gas stations that bother me