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I guess is my chance to tell my story. I have been doing this job for a few years now. Driving all over the country, living in the truck, see the family one or
by lhuser123 9y ago
I guess is my chance to tell my story.
I have been doing this job for a few years now. Driving all over the country, living in the truck, see the family one or two days a month, etc, etc. In summary not the best job but it allowed me to help my children.
Now, how have I spent all those long and boring lonely hours ? Learning to code, yeah!.
Always looking for something to do inside that truck, somehow started reading about computer programming, and, well, now I can't let go.
I used to work in accounting(long time ago), so had an idea of what it was, but that was it. Now I know a little bit about Angular2, Ionic, Django, Docker, github, and things like that, and even bought a PC and installed Ubuntu after reading the book How Linux works.
But what I really want express is this: It's amazing how much free learning material is offered by the open source community, and will never be able to thanks them enough.
And yes, my hope is to someday get a good programming job!
- tehlike 9y agoVery good for you. There are always good jobs for driven people like yourself. I wish the best of luck to you, and kudos. And agree about opensource, I learned more from opensource than my formal CS education.
- lhuser123 9y agoThanks. Comments like that about open source, helps me keep things in perspective whenever I struggle to understand something.
- 6stringmerc 9y agoThanks for sharing and I hope the value is great in your lifetime - as in, providing help your children but also give you a chance to discover something about yourself. I feel bad for a lot of the drivers who don't see their downtime as a way to try something or practice something. For me, it'd be rehearsing stories or talking out thoughts on a recorder to upload while I'm back driving, maybe play a little guitar to see it could speed up how quick people help me out. I think many hard jobs don't allow enough room for a person to engage in some self-improvement regularly, and that's unfortunate.
- lhuser123 9y agowao! You just mentioned something I actually do, which is recording questions and thoughts about what I'm learning. Now I don't feel so weird :)
- 6stringmerc 9y agoCool, as a story writer sometimes it really helps me just make a voice memo! I've actually mocked out a full 3 Act feature script on a casual walk. Granted, I had the characters and idea already, but it was just a nice use of time and surprisingly beneficial. Keep it up!