What 2 Years of Failing as a Programmer Taught Me 

I appreciate you being kinda vulnerable and honest about the rough parts. I'm working in IT and trying to get over to Software Engineering and this is some major inspo for me, and helps pop the bubble a lot of crap on youtube perpetuats.

Hey man. I’m also a musician song writer producer audio engineer. I’ve been in the music space for the past 15 years I’ve been living in the Bay Area and LA/SD just back and forth from one failure to the next. Got signed to a pub deal a few years ago and it didn’t work out so.. I’m still doing music and writing a lot I love being creative and expressive in that way. But also studied code in 2022 for about 6 months and go absolutely nowhere I was just on the verge of understanding the concept of an object and really hadn’t spent enough time in any mark up language to successfully design anything remotely user friendly. I’m in a spot rn where I have the time to commit to learning code and the mindset stuff is really where it’s at and what’s given me the breakthrough that I’ve been seeking. Anyways I say that all to point out that we may have some things in common and I’d like to see if you’d be interesting in linking up via zoom and allowing me to sort of pick your brain and maybe get some guidance from you? I don’t want to use the word mentor cause I don’t know if your in that sort of position but I can also see myself doing mindset stuff like you do as well. If anything man I appreciate your story and it’s been encouraging watching your stuff. Let me know if we can chat. Thanks so much.

I stumbled upon this for a reason...the universe has surely provided

Keep pushing buddy, You're the best!

Thank you so much Dylan. Advice I needed to hear. Your guitar array in the background is so cool as well. All the best 👍👍💯💯✌️

I needed this. Thanks man 🙌

it’s funny because i’m at about 6 months in and i can see that for a lot longer, it’s going to be this much failing and falling flat on my face..

Dylan, nice honest video.

Hey love the advice here. One thing I wished I could do is find a good company to get my foot in the door. It doesn't even have to be in software development. it could be help-desk during the time I'm learning to code this way I could transition from help-desk to front end and so on. also I'll always have access a mentor that actually works for the company doing software engineering, but still be able to feed my family lol.

Great video, question what languages do you know?

This is true 🙂 But it is worth it in the end 😉

can we talk somewhere please