Today I'm a skilled developer who can make tasks and features by it’s own, accomplishing the pursued objectives around a project, sounds nice and it gives good expectations about it at future, but the beginning of this story is also interesting too.
It started as if it were an uncertain stage in my life where I did not know my definitive course in the midst of the situation nor did I know what it might bring me.
Let me tell you a story of a guy who did crossed a mood of apathy to a stage of learning where it opened a path in life.
“It is better to do and repent, than not to do and repent.”
~Nicolás Maquiavelo
A sabbatical year, now what?
I was finishing school, and the university where I aspired to pursue a career in Computer Science I could not be selected, since at that time it was only possible to enter through a selection filter that chose candidates in a very random way, but why is another story. At the end of the school stage, it was not clear what my definitive course would be, nor what the next one would be...
Then... Going to studies
After acquiring a base in programming, I considered that I needed to study a career in relation to the area I wanted to aspire to, which was computer science, both to have the title and to enter in context with what I wanted to work. I discovered an institute where I could study a short 2 year degree in informatics, I enrolled and started studying there...
My start as a professional, here we go!
I got in contact with a group of people thanks to a friend from when I was in school, he invited me to an induction workshop of the mentioned group, they were an organization composed of a foundation that taught young people practical skills for working in international projects and a company that played the role of a technology consulting firm that offered both technology and engineering solutions for companies and cities...