Hello! My name is Alexey, I’m 25 years old, and I’ve been working as a Java developer for 2.5 years now. I remember when I was just starting my journey in IT, I was constantly tormented by doubts - will it work? And it was the success stories of other people that gave me the motivation to move on: if someone else succeeded, then I could do it too! Therefore, I hope that my story will help someone in difficult but worthwhile learning. Once upon a time in a far, far away Siberian city... After graduating from school in 2012, I, like many of my peers, didn’t really understand what I wanted to do next, and I really didn’t care. The only thing I understood was that I needed to get a higher education (I definitely didn’t want to join the army). Applications were sent out almost randomly to different universities in our country for different specialties, and a few months later I entered NSTU to major in Electrical Power and Electrical Engineering. 4 years in the hostel flew by fun and quickly - in 2016 I finish my bachelor’s degree and enter the master’s program. But suddenly I begin to understand that this is not what I would like to do at all. After some thought, it was decided: I want to be a programmer! After all, I already spent a lot of time at the computer (an avid gamer), so why not try to spend this time usefully and for money? I quickly decided on the language by googling “top programming languages” and on November 13, 2016 my journey began! In general, I didn’t have much time, because... I stopped attending classes at the university and at the very first session (in January) I was expected to be expelled. That is, in 2-3 months I had to learn the language from scratch and find a job. Every day from morning to night I Googled and searched for all possible information on Java. I downloaded several huge books, read articles, watched videos, but my head was a mess. Do I remember the first day well? when I started reading “Philosophy of JAVA”: from the very first pages nothing is clear, I have to re-read everything several times, but it doesn’t get any better. I’m already starting to doubt this event, but then HE appears - JavaRush! A ray of light at the end of the tunnel. How simple, clear, and interesting everything was. I put all my books aside and completely immersed myself in solving problems. Already at the end of December I reach level 20+. At the same time, I'm learning the basics of HTML, CSS and GIT. The first chapters of the book no longer cause such horror and everything begins to fit into my head on its own. And at the beginning of January 2017, I was already drawing up my first resume and sending it to a couple of companies. Of course, it was hard to believe, but the knowledge that I received in 22 levels at JavaRush was enough to qualify for an internship at a large fintech company (selecting 10 people out of 97), and at the same time I was also hired as a full-fledged Junior developer at a second, small company on software development. This is how my journey into the wonderful world of IT began. Then there was a lot of interesting and not very interesting things, I ended up not finishing the internship, I stayed to work in a small company. It was a great experience. Over the 2 years of working there, I grew up in a strong middle position, learned a lot of new technologies, frameworks and tools, my salary increased 5 times, the number of employees grew from 5 to 30+, met cool guys, gained experience in tech. interviewing Junior developers and mentoring them, experience in team management. And in December 2018, I received an offer from a bank in Moscow, which I couldn’t refuse, but that’s another story :) In conclusion, I would like to say: Friends, don’t be afraid to go towards your goal. Solve problems, read books, communicate, oh yes: the main thing is to learn to Google. Go to interviews even if you think you don't have enough knowledge yet. In any case, it's an experience. It worked for me, it worked for thousands of other people - it can work for you too! Good luck and good luck to everyone! May the force be with you!
Once upon a time in a far, far away Siberian city... After graduating from school in 2012, I, like many of my peers, didn’t really understand what I wanted to do next, and I really didn’t care. The only thing I understood was that I needed to get a higher education (I definitely didn’t want to join the army). Applications were sent out almost randomly to different universities in our country for different specialties, and a few months later I entered NSTU to major in Electrical Power and Electrical Engineering. 4 years in the hostel flew by fun and quickly - in 2016 I finish my bachelor’s degree and enter the master’s program. But suddenly I begin to understand that this is not what I would like to do at all. After some thought, it was decided: I want to be a programmer! After all, I already spent a lot of time at the computer (an avid gamer), so why not try to spend this time usefully and for money? I quickly decided on the language by googling “top programming languages” and on November 13, 2016 my journey began! In general, I didn’t have much time, because... I stopped attending classes at the university and at the very first session (in January) I was expected to be expelled. That is, in 2-3 months I had to learn the language from scratch and find a job. Every day from morning to night I Googled and searched for all possible information on Java. I downloaded several huge books, read articles, watched videos, but my head was a mess. Do I remember the first day well? when I started reading “Philosophy of JAVA”: from the very first pages nothing is clear, I have to re-read everything several times, but it doesn’t get any better. I’m already starting to doubt this event, but then HE appears - JavaRush! A ray of light at the end of the tunnel. How simple, clear, and interesting everything was. I put all my books aside and completely immersed myself in solving problems. Already at the end of December I reach level 20+. At the same time, I'm learning the basics of HTML, CSS and GIT. The first chapters of the book no longer cause such horror and everything begins to fit into my head on its own. And at the beginning of January 2017, I was already drawing up my first resume and sending it to a couple of companies. Of course, it was hard to believe, but the knowledge that I received in 22 levels at JavaRush was enough to qualify for an internship at a large fintech company (selecting 10 people out of 97), and at the same time I was also hired as a full-fledged Junior developer at a second, small company on software development. This is how my journey into the wonderful world of IT began. Then there was a lot of interesting and not very interesting things, I ended up not finishing the internship, I stayed to work in a small company. It was a great experience. Over the 2 years of working there, I grew up in a strong middle position, learned a lot of new technologies, frameworks and tools, my salary increased 5 times, the number of employees grew from 5 to 30+, met cool guys, gained experience in tech. interviewing Junior developers and mentoring them, experience in team management. And in December 2018, I received an offer from a bank in Moscow, which I couldn’t refuse, but that’s another story :) In conclusion, I would like to say: Friends, don’t be afraid to go towards your goal. Solve problems, read books, communicate, oh yes: the main thing is to learn to Google. Go to interviews even if you think you don't have enough knowledge yet. In any case, it's an experience. It worked for me, it worked for thousands of other people - it can work for you too! Good luck and good luck to everyone! May the force be with you!
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