From Air Conditioning Technician to Junior Developer in 6 months

<p>Meet Dan (35) from Australia 🇦🇺🦘. After working as an Air Conditioning Technician for 9 years, Dan enrolled in <a href="https://scrimba.com/learn/frontend">Scrimba's Frontend Developer Career Path</a> to become a hireable web developer. 6 months later, here we are!</p><p><br>Success found Dan much quicker than he expected - not because he was the absolute best coder (Dan admits he stumbled through the technical interview) but instead because Dan successfully demonstrated his <strong>teachability</strong> and <strong>potential</strong>. Now Dan is earning to learn. If you follow Dan's advice, you could too!<br><strong><br>Timestamps</strong></p><ul> <li>Introduction (00:00)</li> <li>How Dan became a Junior Developer in 7 months (01:32)</li> <li>How Dan managed to stand out to an employer and get a callback (06:45)</li> <li>Dan assumed his test questions were JavaScript but they were actually PHP 😧 (09:44)</li> <li>Instead of idly waiting for a decision Dan improved his skills (14:06)</li> <li>Dan continued to follow-up and sell himself after the interview (15:57)</li> <li>Dan think he stumbled through the on-site interview but the employer reassured him (17:07)</li> <li>Dan got the job 🎉 (19:06)</li> <li>How Dan's experience talking to customers surprisingly helped him land a a Junior Developer job (20:16)</li> </ul><p><strong><br>Links</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://imgur.com/a/2c0dmRw">A screenshot of the cover letter that earned Dan his interview</a></li> <li>Dan wrote about his whole experience in more detail here: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ols4d5/changed_career_from_hvacr_tech_to_junior_web_dev/">Changed career from HVAC-R tech to junior web dev at 35. Here’s my story...</a> </li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bookercodes">Follow Alex from Scrimba on Twitter</a></li> </ul>