Hired by Coca Cola! How Michael Learned Coding on Work Breaks and Changed Careers at 51

<p><strong>🎙 About the episode</strong></p><p><br><strong>Meet Michael Robards 🇺🇸! </strong>Michael is a career changer whose path to becoming a developer was a long and winding one: he was a business analyst and a personal trainer; he worked front of house and managed restaurants; he studied biology and worked in customer service. Eventually, he got a developer job at Coca-Cola!</p><p>In this episode, Michael shares his story and his approach to learning and getting a job. He did a lot of things right, and he's also a proof that it's never too late for a carreer change. Michael and Alex also talk about imposter syndrome, difficulties of learning to code while having a full-time job, differences between big and small companies, and why having to keep on learning is a great thing about working in tech.</p><p><strong>🔗 Connect with Michael</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-robards-630526138">👨‍💼LinkedIn</a></li></ul><p>⏰ <strong>Timestamps</strong></p><ul> <li>Michael's long and winding path to becoming a developer (01:44)</li> <li>Why Michael thought becoming a software developer wasn't right for him (08:17)</li> <li>How Michael commited to learning to code - and did that on company time, at least at first (09:04)</li> <li>On learning to code while having a full-time job (11:56)</li> <li>How Coca-Cola helped Michael on his coding journey (12:45)</li> <li>Ad break: We had a lot of career changers on the podcast. Here's <a href="https://scrimba.com/podcast/how-pastor-turned-developer-chris-crushed-it-on-linkedin-and-landed-an-internship-and-a-job/">one of them</a>! Plus how to support us, and who's on next week (it's Caitlyn Greffly)!</li> <li>Is there anything Michael would've done differently? (17:43)</li> <li>Why did it take four and a half years for Michael to get a software job at Coke? (20:31)</li> <li>What does it look like to be hired internally? (22:57)</li> <li>How to fight imposter syndrome? (25:12)</li> <li>What kind of a coworker does a junior developer need? (27: