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3 Months to a Tech Career
A three month time span is a somewhat arbitrary amount of time in regards to entering tech and yet it is still important. I’ve spent a lot of time putting time pressure on myself that was unhelpful and actually contrary to achieving my goals. Why then would I write a blog with a time segment in the title outside of the obvious click-ability candy?
The reason is that when it comes to learning and gap filling, timelines are very helpful. Timelines help us piece out our learning and evaluate progress in a way that is motivating and helpful to achieving deeper knowledge. You go through 3 months of trying to learn the skills, apply for the job and then you don’t get your digital marketing manager job or your JS developer role for 4 months. Have you failed? No way! You got that dream job! Likely a lot sooner than if you had no timeline around it.
What if you go through the learning plan, you build up your skills, you do your networking and at the end of 3 months you don’t have a job? What would you do? Well, that would of course depend on how far along you were. If you were interviewing or talking to a potential freelance client, and you had a final form portfolio ready to go, you might see how close you were and keep going, right?
So the approach I recommend is to time segment your learning and networking so that you can:
