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From Slaughterhouse Worker to Developer

on YouTube 16m
TalkinFrenchat Best of Web 2019 · on Friday, 2019-06-07· [career-development, diversity-and-inclusion]

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name:Tiffany Vachez
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video:https://youtu.be/UaGDlH28GRc
slides:none on file

summary

A personal career-change story about moving from manual and service jobs (cleaner, meat-cutting factory worker, cashier) into software development. It describes the motivation and process used two years ago to retrain and become a developer.

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chapters (9)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:08Slaughterhouse conditions
  3. 3:57Depression and career change
  4. 4:39HTML and CSS basics
  5. 6:04Toucan Toco immersion
  6. 7:06Learning challenges
  7. 7:48CDI hiring
  8. 8:31Self-taught advice
  9. 9:13Q&A

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