How I Brute Forced My Way Into Becoming a Software Engineer

[@ramiworkstation]

Thank you very much for being open about your career path and sharing your story. wishing you all success 🌻

[@gerardsiles]

Thanks Tom for sharing your journey. I studied a HNC on web development, and been working as a web developer for almost 2 years now, and always kept studying on edx, udemy... and your channel always gave good insights into the backend side for me, learned a lot from your videos, thanks for taking that time!

[@umarmuhammadzakari4585]

This is great. It just motivated me to get back on my track. Started 4 years ago.

[@TomDoesTech]

What are you struggling with?

[@umarmuhammadzakari4585]

Feeling like am at a point where I can build almost anything. I need something challenging. I feel right now it's just about learning new languages and frameworks.

[@TomDoesTech]

@@umarmuhammadzakari4585 are you working in the industry?

[@ajaydeepsinghrajpoot]

Would love a video about file uploads with next/node js, comparing based on cost, ease of the process and other factors.

[@abdallahazme4757]

Iam civil engineer but my start with programing was with python pyautogui and opencv and yes i just wanted to atomate some game stuff haha

[@ayomidewilfred1864]

This is an amazing walkthrough story. Do you have a video on Prometheus?and Kafka?

[@TomDoesTech]

Nah but I should make one of Prometheus and geafana, it's an underrated tool

[@almuntasirabir4511]

@@TomDoesTech you do have one video in the rest API series on Prometheus.

[@lostinthenarrativve]

Hey man, is it necessary to move onto Nextjs from MERN ( Plain React with vite ) to start a webdev business or I can pull it off with MERN and no Next ?

[@elraito]

Moving from mern to next is really a single weekend of building a project. You can learn all you need by converting one of your old project to usibg next

[@TomDoesTech]

Yeah you can do it with MERN, it pretty much comes down to personal preference

[@johnkucharsky6927]

where do you work now?

[@scrumptious1177]

How is a web dev so different from a software enginerr?

[@omgmaw]

Software engineer is a broad term. You could be working on multiple areas of developerment such as frontend, backend, databases etc. A web developer is soley focused on the design of the user interface or specifcally the frontend of the web application.