Who Are You? Why Are You Here? What's Next? I attended University of Colorado at Boulder, originally in the Engineering school because I was good at math and preferred writing equations to writing papers. After just one semester though, I learned that was not for me, and switched to the school of Archiecture and Urban Design. It was the architecture school that showed me my love for design, but it was the TAM program I took for my minor that showed me a love for programming. TAM stands for Technology Arts & Media, and was an intro course to HTML and CSS. We designed basic layouts in Adobe Creative Suite, and built them in our text editor, which at the time was Sublime. When Architecture wasn't really doing it for me, coding was checking all the boxes. I knew before I had graduated that this was the career path I wanted to follow. Shortly after graduation I began applying for jobs in the technical field, believing I was passionate enough about the material that I would learn what I needed, after I got the job. That wasn't going to work. I even applied to jobs that were more design heavy, graphic designer, than coding based because I believed if I could just get in somewhere in the right community, I could prove myself and get the job I really want. After two years I had no luck. I was realizing that there was, on the whole, more to this programming career than HTML and CSS. I attended Turing 2 years after graduating from CU, and have been blown away. This program is introducing me to a world I didn't even know existed, and I'm only two modules in. I'm excited to finally have the tools and skillset I need to get the job I have always wanted. I just have to get through Turing.
Add challenge, job history, what I want out of a team.
Hi Virginia, sorry for the delay here, but this is a great draft! I appreciate how you've highlighted your passion for this field and how you exercised different pathways to get into it, showing your tenacity. I agree with your notes at the bottom that for future iterations, you can dive more into that "what's next" question to discuss where you'd like to go in this career and what transferable skills you bring with you from other work experiences. Overall, nice start!