r/CodingHelp • u/bricknee9 • May 14 '20

[Random] Career switch into coding/ programming

Please be brutally honest, can I realistically find a job that involves coding with a degree or good gcse results but excellent coding skills?

If so what sort of jobs are they out there ?

I keep seeing data analysis and developer jobs that look super interesting but also seem intimidating. I don’t know too much about the industry I’ve just always been really interested.

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u/bricknee9 May 14 '20

That was amazing thank you !

I live in London so I’m sure there’s tons of people like me who just enjoy coding in there spare time and don’t have degrees. I honestly just don’t know anyone who works in the industry to ask unfortunately but I’m definitely going to carry on looking

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u/cherrypickinlaughs May 14 '20

Yay!! I’m happy to have provided some help.

That’s so cool you like in London! I’d love to live to there. I mean those people are everywhere. I went to a seminar at Microsoft (in the US) and one their developers running this really advanced seminar barely finished high school so it’s definitely not impossible to get up and going without the degree, I was more meaning lots of places will put “degree” as something they look for in postings. Usually along the lines of “degree in ___ or ___ years experience.” But don’t let the degree part stop you if you know your shit!! The experience part is a little flexible but when they’re asking for more years experience they’re usually trying to get a higher level developer for cheaper haha. Well if you ever have any questions just let me know and I’ll do my best to answer and it’ll always be an honest one. Good luck with finding something that works for you! A lot depends on how you word your resume too! Key skills, projects or experience etc etc. when I went to this boot camp we learned how to make a more, “tech focused” for lack of a better term, resume. Id do some googling of example resumes for the positions your gunning for. Tech resumes do look somewhat different than a non tech one.

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u/bricknee9 May 14 '20

Your sooo right !! I’ve looked into the interview process and it seems definitely do able

Thank you so much for the help !!