How I Landed My First Frontend Job 👩🏻‍💻 - As a Biologist 🔬 | Self taught | No CS Degree

[@VojtechKotekoid]

Thanks for sharing your tips, Bella! It is always admirable to see people taking the leap and switching their career paths. I have immense respect for that. I'm sure many will find these tips helpful, and your story inspirational.

[@michal4736]

LOL, I also finished biology studies but during it, I started learning animation yourself and finished as a game animator ;D Good to see someone who has, somehow, a similar path.

[@BellaCapilla]

that's amazing! Believe it or not.. I'm learning game dev on my own now :D haha

[@michal4736]

Oh well, biology people have to have something then what moves them into game dev work :D I assume that you learning something with code?

[@BellaCapilla]

Yes yes. I already made 2 tiny ones to learn in Unity. Now want to make a real one :) C# for that :D

[@michal4736]

Awesome! Fingers crossed then! : )

[@Diego_Cabrera]

This was a really good video for those just starting out! keep up the great content!

[@returndislikes6906]

I remember that billboard. I had a chance to visit University of Kaiserslautern. I was research intern in DFKI for 3 months as part of exchange program and had published research in fluid dynamics. It was great experience. I got a dream job in field of AI.

[@samyogadhikari2748]

congrats, the video is blowing up. i think it might hit 15k.

[@BellaCapilla]

Thank you! I’m super surprised and excited 😍

[@malinko35]

biology and sciences was what i was most interested with in high school and community college, but realizing i could never afford the degree without huge debt made me get into the blue collar work world. now im 33 :(

[@engacrisnavarro5192]

What a wonderful video!, I am so proud of you, you're always on my mind and my heart. I love you.

[@cdcsdccc2300]

10:44 love this 😄

[@sophielittle7683]

Love your story! 😊 did you know react before getting your first front end job?

[@BellaCapilla]

I learned a little bit during my Master thesis and during the period of time I continued working at the same company. I made my website with React because that’s what I was learning at the time. Today I think I would go for Vue though 🙂

[@wulfm4nn]

i really enjoyed this video 🙂i don't really care much for webdev these days (sorry, not sorry), but love the explanation about your career trajectory, especially the humble beginnings with your parents' business. it's an inspirational video and the meme edits were on point as always 😂 well done! (both your career pivot and the video) 💪

[@BellaCapilla]

Thank you @wulfm4nn! You're a dear. Glad you enjoyed it. ❤😊

[@SandeepKumar-ot5im]

This has been my exact journey so far, I also got a biology degree but due to the lack of Jobs, I switched to Programming as I always had interest in that (currently working as a full stack developer).

[@BellaCapilla]

Amazing!! 😍 Congratulations! 🥳

[@deveshyadav6014]

Hi I am also a biology student currently doing my graduation and also learning code for similar reason. Btw where are you from I am from Rajasthan.

[@SandeepKumar-ot5im]

@@deveshyadav6014 Hey I am UP, what's you progress in learning to code

[@deveshyadav6014]

@@SandeepKumar-ot5im well I started learning code from this July I wanted to start much early but due to some conditions I started late I am learning eeb development and I am on CSS right now. Btw what's your instagram so I can connect with you and what you are doing in coding Right now.

[@deveshyadav6014]

@@SandeepKumar-ot5im please tell me your instagram id so I can have a senior to guide me

[@Amadeus8484]

You could write codes for Biochemistry. Perhaps you can help write 3D printed medicine codes? :)

[@nicolasximenes5434]

Na epoca eu queria ter feito uma universidade de exatas para ter aplicado para o ciencias sem fronteiras, mas a vida é muito volátil, uma hora vc ta seguindo uma coisa depois tudo vira de ponta cabeça, eu o pensando em aprender alguma liguagem apenas para entender o basico, acho q o futuro do mercado de trabalha vai mudar muito em pouco tempo

[@BellaCapilla]

É verdade. Eu sempre fui uma pessoa de ter plano A, B, C pra seguir. Quando me vi procurando emprego, percebi que não importa quantos planos você tenha, algo imprevisível pode te pegar de surpresa e aqueles planos anteriores não valem mais… mas com certeza, pra todas as áreas profissionais hoje em dia vale a pena ter um conhecimento básico de programação. Essa vantagem te levará mais longe e jamais será perda de tempo aprender. 🤓 Boa sorte com seu aprendizado! Pretendo criar vídeos tutoriais básicos de introdução à diversas linguagens de programação neste canal e espero que eu possa ajudar um pouquinho com seus planos! 🙂

[@baohuariley5740]

It's a very good video. Additionally, I'm I'm impressed by your English. How come you come from Brazil and speak perfect English. I'm wondering.

[@Amadeus8484]

I went to school four times and the fourth was when I got my education in something employable, now I just have to get my drivers license and I am set lol

[@khaladaglarion]

Always loved biology, but when I figured out the amount of animals sacrifice, I simply gave up. A friend of mine though, is working with deep ocean microbiology at an oceanography institute. So everything depends on your specialty, even though you'll probably slice an animal or two. Anyways, would be nice to keep investing in the biology channel, since it's an educational content. There're some teachers who successfully built online study platforms and helped out many students. You're so good at editing, so meticulous doing your videos, would love to see more biology videos. Not only that, but now that you're working with code and already have experience with websites. You could easily make paid content, using AI art in order to enrich your biology website and so on. Alongside it, you could keep working with coding etc., it's just a way to not waste all your previous effort. Neuroscience is another interesting topic, especially now with AI and neural networks. Interesting enough, AI is a primitive mind, not bound to biological process. So, even though understanding the brain would improve AI, there're other ways. It's similar to your career path and choices, from which you deviated in order to expand your horizon. Understanding neural networks, and programming accordingly, you could improve AI. And studying its behavior, there're so many possibilities, without killing animals. It's nice that you already studied bioinformatics, learned it and so on! I can only imagine everything you could learn analyzing those data. It's sad though we need to travel abroad to study those things. Alright, so from my understanding, after finishing your thesis you had to leave your company. So now you don't necessarily work with biology, but had to apply to anything in order to just survive. I have another friend from physics who had to do the same, now working at something else. It's sad that this happens abroad as well, since we think that we would have more opportunities. Well, we might have, but sometimes the circumstances aren't favorable. With all your knowledge in biology, neuroscience and programming, you could do wonders I mean, aside the fact we need to survive, taking any opportunity that appears, you could invest this profit into researches and AI development, just an idea though. So happy to find your content, eager to watch more videos and to comment!

[@Laboritis]

Apple's Phil Schiller graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree in biology! The rest is history.

[@brownieant]

I can only imagine how much you had to study to learn in weeks what people had years to learn in order to deliver your projects and thesis. I would be interested in knowing if you had any challenges regarding getting into a male dominated field? Have you faced any barriers or were you treated differently due to gender (positively or negatively)?

[@just_exist_ezz]

how can you take computer science students jobs😂😂.great tips and good luck for this transition

[@jakobudovic]

But why ?

[@jeffrey8336]

Promo-SM

[@gre8]

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[@thriver5664]

Hey Bella u from which country? Watching you from INDIA

[@BellaCapilla]

Hey! Well, if you watched, I talk about that a few times in the video xD Happy to have you here! :)

[@thriver5664]

@@BellaCapilla You talking about moving, studying, applying job in Germany, I meant from where u moved :)

[@BellaCapilla]

Yep, I do talk about that. :) I talk about my whole childhood

[@thriver5664]

​@@BellaCapillahey it's Brazil, had to watch it again, well guessed it at start after seeing Flag but I heard the name also, thank you:)