we got a lot of questions i mean a lot in the last 24 hours we got over 100 questions
i can't make this video go on forever or maybe i can that length of time i mean i could but i
feel like i would bore you because as you know i get very passionate about answering each question
um moral stories we are going to be answering we who's we me i i tiffany i'm going to be
answering your questions today enough of me talking let's just do this let's get into it
what was that i bought a new i had way too much coffee today
okay i'm going to start answering some questions and these are questions i ask for you to leave in
my community tab here on youtube so it ranges from tech career coding personal you know me i'm
an open book but how i'm going to answer these is i'm going to look at some of the top rated
meaning the most thumbs up questions and kind of work my way from there question number one i know
there has this is from happy happy happy happy i like your username i know there have been a lot of
layoffs in tech recently is this making it harder for self-taught programmers to land their first
job that is a great question and i think it's something that's been on all of our minds the
amount of layoffs there has been in tech and if you turn on the tv or go on the internet it's no
surprise that we all have this kind of fear in the back of our minds as the great it started with a
great resignation earlier this year everyone was quitting their jobs and then it trickled into
everyone was getting laid off of their jobs so how does this affect people who are learning to code
or really even if you aren't a programmer getting their first job landing their first job in tech
and i think this is i think this is kind of a two-fold and as you know me i'm a bit of
an optimist but let me explain why i think this doesn't have to be a bad thing or discourage you
yes there are a lot of layoffs happening and that will will pass through that and
it will get back to the hiring cycle and demand for programmers i mean there are
there is still a very high demand for programmers but what i think will happen is if you are someone
who is job hunting you can feel more reassured that if this company is hiring and hiring at quite
great lengths hiring a lot of people they're definitely not going to be laying off their
employees right away they're not hiring them on the back side of things laying off employees i
mean never say never i'm not saying this is a perfect kind of way of looking at things but
that's a great way that i look at it the company is really actively hiring and growing most likely
you are pretty safe to interview with them and if you decide to go with that company so to answer
your question you it really shouldn't impact you at all i would continue to learn you are learning
a skill that is so in demand and will continue okay question number two does the tech boot camp
you attend affect your employment and honestly the quick answer to that is yeah it really does
and that doesn't mean though if you went to a boot camp that maybe wasn't that great or isn't really
helping you out with employment now that you can't find a job or you're totally screwed not by any
means but if you are considering going to a coding bootcamp it really does coding or any kind of tech
whether it be ui ux design et cetera it does matter what boot camp you go to how come because
the support they will offer afterwards and their reputation will really affect you
in your job search and this isn't to say that if you end up going to a boot camp that isn't
you know ideal and you discover it as you are in the process of a coding bootcamp that you can't
get a great job because it comes down to you as a person but getting your foot in the door at that
first company after the coding boot camp or tech boot camp it does matter what coding boot camp you
went to and i just want to elaborate a little bit more on that i'm not trying to scare you by saying
you need to go to this grandiose expensive boot camp because they definitely can go to whether
it's self teaching or a coding boot camp and get a great job and land a great job at the end of the
day it really comes down to you as a person and your willingness to keep on moving forward because
job hunting when you're looking for your first job in tech it's hard it's really difficult once you
get your foot in the door that's a different story but the initial getting your foot in the door
it's tough let's be honest here and i don't want to discourage you if you do go to coding boot camp
or any kind of tech bootcamp that you're like oh i wish i would have gone to a different one
you can still get a great job but i'm just saying if you are looking to go to a coding bootcamp or
i keep on saying coding then tech bootcamp but for any kind of bootcamp definitely take
into consideration what their support what support they have for after you graduate
for example i went to a boot camp many many years ago and they did not have any support
after i graduated it was literally like shake your hand say bye and your good luck and it was a very
difficult process to do on my own and i would not recommend it for anyone
okay another question i got asked from betty boop i love betty boop great name
what is the hardest thing you've had to face when learning to code how do you continue to
be motivated to learn this is a great question and i think the initial answer or the answer
some people might think that i would say is well learning you know the basic fundamentals
of javascript or python or maybe learning sql and about databases is the hardest thing
it actually the hardest thing about coding for me when i was learning how to code
wasn't actually the code itself oh man i forget to turn off my phone that wasn't actually the code
itself but rather the mental block that comes with learning how to code and what i mean by that is
it's very easy when you start learning how to code to go online and there are these it's what
feels like this infinite number of resources to learn from so-and-so is telling you to learn this
another person is telling you to learn this where do you actually begin and it's so overwhelming
alongside that tech is moving so quickly so it can often feel like you will never catch up that's
how i felt anyways so to answer your question the hardest thing about learning to code that i faced
was the mental blocks that i put on myself the self-doubt the self-worth am i good enough am i
smart enough for this and it took a while for me to step back and realize that i wasn't being kind
to myself i wasn't speaking to myself as i would speak to others i was being really harsh to myself
while going through the process of learning to code my biggest advice for anyone who is learning
to code is to be kind to yourself if you're having a day where you're frustrated or stuck take a step
back you don't need to keep on pushing forward sometimes if you feel like you've just don't
have the energy and another thing alongside that if you can find a community or a mentor to support
you i mean that's the whole reason i started to contact was to support others in their journey
but if you need more of a one-on-one finding that mentorship but really recognizing that sometimes
we are our biggest blocks in learning something new and then when you kind of look at it from that
point of view it really helps excel things where did i graduate from and what course so i went to
university for graphic communications management at ryerson university here in toronto and honestly
the course itself was four years long and it was a little bit of everything so it was a bit
of graphic design a bit of communication a bit of been a bit a bit a bit of management and it was in
my last year and i'm sure a ton of you have heard the story before but it was in my last year that
it was required to take a very basic coding course from there i ended up going to a coding bootcamp i
went to brain station and i don't actively share where i went to a coding bootcamp because i went
so many years ago that i really don't know what it is like now so i'm not going to sit here and
suggest something that i am not familiar with and that's why i kind of always am reluctant to
share with you what coding bootcamp i went to but i did have a great experience at the time
yeah is age a barrier to learn web development and i'm going to speak to this broadly not just
web development but tech in general no there is no barrier as far as if you are too old if
you can break into tech or learn something new i think one of the great things about tech is it's
evolving so quickly which means you need people who are willing to continually learn and grow so
don't put a limit on yourself based on your age of course it's important to recognize as you get
older as we get older different uh obstacles come in our way so i'm not saying it's necessarily easy
as you get older but it's definitely possible and there is definitely space for you in this industry
what are my music tastes oh this is like the most difficult question to be honest because
if you just looked on my spotify or my sonos i do sonos a lot so i can listen throughout the house
in different rooms but it's honestly mostly just jazz i don't listen to a ton of music
which is really weird and i feel really weird thanks what does that say about me as a person
but honestly it's when i'm working i listen to i just google or not google search in spotify
different kind of playlists around jazz otherwise i don't really listen to music unless we're out or
whatever and uh that's just kind of whatever music is playing so paul i listened to a lot of music
that paul my boyfriend listens to but it'd be rap um we're really actually into like electric music
recently i've been listening to a lot of old school well not too old but like mgmt that kind of
stuff i don't know that's a really great question but it's probably the hardest question on here
but curious to know what is your favorite kind of music leave in the comments and let's see how
many similarities we have what is better at the beginning of your career freelancing or working
at a company oh this is a great question uh and one i have when i started out i think it really
depends on your personality for me i was someone who i knew i needed some more direction at the
beginning of my career some mentorship a lot of mentorship and i wasn't ready to take on working
alone finding clients on my own and not having that sense of mentorship that being said though
you can find mentorship if you are freelancing you just need to actively seek it out so i think
it really depends on what kind of personality you are are you someone who's comfortable from
right out the get-go being able to just not know really what's coming up you know you're completely
new to the industry you're finding clients or you know if you are someone who maybe
wants a bit more stability at the beginning of your career starting out at a company is
a great way to go honestly i would gear more towards starting out at a company
but once again there's always the exception to the rule well this isn't really a rule but
really starting at a company will build up your network will build up your skills
so that you can start freelancing on the side and then eventually go freelance full-time okay those
are i mean it was just seven questions that i answered out of a hundred i would answer more but
i know i'd be here all day i try and answer less questions but more in depth for you that being
said if you have questions or if i didn't answer the question you have leave it down below in the
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