Stories from a career dropout
summary
A career pivot from banking to software involves quitting, taking a full-time boot camp in Liverpool, accepting a pay cut and starting as a junior, then building a four-day coding camp (CoderDojo / Codayo) that teaches HTML, JavaScript and CSS to 11 students — eight girls and three boys — which succeeds in sparking continued interest. The concrete claim is that passion produces flow — five times more productive — balanced against clear costs and practical steps for trying different paths.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Finance to engineering
- 3:55Quitting finance
- 6:01Learning to code
- 7:47Career is about trying
- 9:12Avoiding quarter-life crisis
- 10:15Career change stories
- 14:27Passion versus practicality
- 16:14Helping career explorers
- 18:25CoderDojo organizing
- 20:35Closing thoughts
- 21:18Q&A: CoderDojo
- 23:26Q&A: Sparking interest
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