Life after General Assembly
Mike Harris @mikemjharris
Mike Harris
Student WDI 5 - April '14
TA on WDI 7 - June'14
Working at Mammal.io
What I'm going to talk about:
What do you want to do?
What I'm going to talk about:
What do you want to do?
What do I do
What I'm going to talk about:
What do you want to do?
What do I do
How to do what you want to do?
What I'm going to talk about:
What do you want to do?
What do I do
How to do what you want to do?
What did I do to do what I do do
Where are we in the talk so far:
What do you want to do?
What do I do
How to do what you want to do?
What did I do to do what I do do
What do YOU want to do?
- Developer
- Own Company
- Other
What do YOU want to do?
Devloper:
Small or large company?
Startup or established?
Tech company or traditional?
Freelance?
Agency?
Full stack? Front end? Back end?
I fell asleep - where are we in the talk so far:
What do you want to do?
What do I do
How to do what you want to do?
What did I do to do what I do do
What is Mammal?
Small web design agency based in Shoreditch
Five people in a coworking space with other startups
About two years old
What do we do at Mammal?
Main project is building apps for a client with the end users being schools. The apps help teachers with lesson preparation, delivery and tracking
Server analytics tools for a local startup
Aim is to have 60/40 split between client work and our own ideas
What technologies do we use at Mammal?
Javascript throughout
Node and Express
Angular
CouchDB (noSQL database)
Anything else?
Full stack
Properly full stack - we deal with everything from deploying to servers, testing, UX/UI, database management, styling etc. etc.
Still lost...
What do you want to do?
What do I do
How to do what you want to do?
What did I do to do what I do do
How?
How?
- Come to GA and learn to code
How?
- Come to GA and learn to code
- Listen really hard to all the lunchtime talks
How?
- Come to GA and learn to code
- Listen really hard to all the Thursday talks
- Goto meetups
How people know about you:
How people know about you:
- Github
- Your Own Webpage
Information:
- The web! Find websites to read, check hacker news, sign up to news letters
- Meet ups (Lrug etc.)
- Blogs
Keep coding!
- Code
- All
- The
- Time!
(but do take a break and chill - life is meant to be fun!)
Still lost...
What do you want to do?
What do I do
How to do what you want to do?
What did I do to do what I do do
How did I find my job
There are lots of jobs out there
The most contacts I got through GA at the meet and greet
I also looked at job boards
And followed people in the industry on twitter
How did I find my job
I found my job through twitter:
How did I find my job
I wrote an email
How did I find my job
Met for a casual chat
Popped into the office
Got a contract
How did I find my job
Not quite as easy as that.
I had to chase.
Persistence paid off.
My number one tip:
Persistence
Resources
I made a google doc
General Assembly
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