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#38 - The Best Way to Get Promoted as a Software Engineer
Send us a textAfter you've had your first engineering job for a while, you may start wondering about how to take the next step in your career. The thing is, approaches for getting promoted often aren't obvious or...
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#37 - Taking Out of The Box Risks with Andre Elmoznino Laufer
Send us a textIn today’s episode we’re going to be talking with Andre Elmoznino Laufer who currently works as a Lead Software Engineer in Stockholm, Sweden. Andre was a student at the very first bootcamp Aaron...
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#36 - How to Find and Complete Side Projects
Send us a textBuilding your own projects is the single best way to improve and reinforce your development skills. But, often, it's hard to know what to build or where to even start. In this episode, we talk about how...
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#35 - Never Apply for a Job Again by Building on LinkedIn with Justin Welsh
Send us a text3.5 years ago, Justin had never written on LinkedIn, but since then his 1-person business has done nearly $1.5M in revenue, with 98% margins, and he’s done this primarily based off his 230k+ LinkedIn...
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#34 - Building a Lifestyle Business, Surviving the Pandemic, and Getting Energized with Lynne Tye of Key Values
Send us a textIn this episode we speak with Lynne Tye. After pivoting away from a neuroscience PhD, Lynne held a variety of jobs before teaching herself to code and becoming a freelance developer. She eventually...
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#33 - Advice For a Recent Bootcamp Grad with Sara Oros
Send us a textIn this episode, we speak with Sara Oros, who JUST graduated from a coding bootcamp and is seeking advice. We help troubleshoot her journey and talk through what the next several phases of his transition...
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#32 - Learning Strategies, Joining Bebo, and Automating Infrastructure with Johnny Dallas of Zeet
Send us a textIn this episode we speak with Johnny Dallas. Johnny started coding in middle school, got a paid internship and eventually ended up dropping out of high school to be a software engineer full-time. The...
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#31 - Fighting Depression: The Best Reason to Become a Software Engineer
Send us a textIn this episode, Aaron shares his own story of battling depression and how becoming a Software Engineer has helped his mental health and changed his life. Enjoy! Links Lost Connections Book:...
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#30 - Learning to Code, Engineering Job Searches and YouTube with Namanh Kapur of Bolt
Send us a textIn this episode, we speak with Namanh Kapur. Namanh is a Rice University CS graduate, a software engineer at Bolt – a fast-growing fintech startup – and a YouTuber with over 30,000 subscribers. In this...
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#29 - Contracting, Entrepreneurship, and Updates with Peter & Aaron
Send us a textEach month, Develop Yourself's co-hosts (Aaron and Peter) will be checking in with each other, in part to talk through how they've each quit their Software Engineering jobs to pursue entrepreneurship,...
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#28 - Self-Teaching, Freelancing and Productized Services with Stephen Wise of Wise Studio
Send us a textIn this episode, we speak with Stephen Wise. Stephen is a freelance web designer and Webflow developer and founder of WiseStudio.In this conversation, Stephen and I talk about why Stephen chose to stop...
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#27 - Troubleshooting a Bootcamp Grad's Job Search with Michael Garcia
Send us a textIn this episode, we speak with Michael Garcia, who is currently learning to code in hopes of landing his first job as a Software Engineer.Michael graduated from a Fintech Bootcamp, but as he had no luck...
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