The Truth About Becoming a Web Developer 2023
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Sponsored segment
1:37 - Do not join a company only for the money
3:45 - Programming is more than just coding
6:14 - Stop grinding
8:56 - Don't make my mistake with money
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@@sylvesterstephen4749 my bad 😅. I fixed it lol
Started watching you in October 2021, got my first web developer job in January 2022 and been in tech for a year and a half now. I remember back then watching your vids just thinking it was a dream, now it’s my life! Keep up the great content man you’re an inspiration
Yooo that is freaking amazing. Congrats after all that hard work!
Man in 4 months? Maybe you could share some advice
@@TrueDIYer no man , you are an inspiration :)
Is self-learning enough or do i need a diploma in web development to work?!
Fukin good for you
I'm 34
Work fulltime, 90k base salary
Currently on the self taught route for web development.
I just enrolled to get my HS diploma.
It's never too late. !!!
What kind of work do you do for 90k? That sounds great
@@chasemacfilms I won't say the name of the company but we send things pass earth atmosphere.. by trade I oversee the build quality of aircrafts. Like a lot of people, I feel I need a change and a challenge and higher wage.. software development/engineering has always been something I thought about at a young age.
@@shieeetfaceHow did you get that job without a high school diploma at the least?
@@centipedekid9824 Work experience and they looked pass that piece of paper which has nothing to do with my performance. . Then finally landed my current job and was able to negotiate that 90k base salary.. Been here for 1.5 years now.
@centipedekid9824 he runs a minecraft server
Chris I've been watching your content for years now and I have to admit it took me some time to get up and start coding but I finally did it seriously back in late 2020. Throughout that time till now I've had to balance a job and study but I'm finally starting to apply and looking forward to joining this community! Thanks for all your tips and advice, it helped keep me on track mentally :)
been in a monster rut trying to learn how to code and I've seen some of your videos when I started but recently found the podcast and I started it from the beginning. It's really helped me get my mind right again
Thanks for being so transparent. This has definitely boosted my confidence to learn. Thank you.
I'm so happy I saw this when I'm just getting into the industry...these were so insightful
Hi Chris, I've been watching your videos since my college days. You are one of the people who have inspired me. I've now been a web developer for 5 years. Thank you; I really appreciate you.
Appreciate you man ❤ I discovered your content six years ago. Because of you I put my head down, studied my ass off and then got my first job as a software engineer a year after learning about your journey. Thank you for setting me on my own 🙏
Yooo amazing! Congrats!
how did you start? this is all so complex, I'd like to begin my journey
Hey you worked your ass to get to where you at so all these things you purchased is not a regret. Don’t tell yourself that. You bought those things, and now like you say, you learn to save it the right way. So good for you man and keep grinding.
Congrats on the career buddy. I'm several years in myself. These layoffs have been brutal lately. Looking for my second job now. Trying to keep going. But, your story continues to inspire.
Congratulations for reaching this level Chris and carrying us along the journey😇😇😇
You blessed me sir. Thank you so much. You really spoke from your heart
I made it to the last part Chris, love your vids fr and your chris talks channel has been super helpful too🙌🏾
Thanks for letting me know! I’m glad my podcast helps too 🙏
Thanks Chris for sharing your knowledge over the past few years, i gained a lot of insights
Absolutely insightful! Especially the last point about saving money!
you are just great man , you cleared all my points and my ways and where am going
*Don't just grind, just to grind, try to make it fun and you will last so much longer in this game!!!!*
Thank you so much Chris!
Big thumbs up from Serbia! *Subscribed*
people who stay in a company because it's their comfort zone is fine. we all have different lives, you don't always need to hustle and grind. there is more to life than work and career. if you have a job that pays the bill and let's you do the things you love outside of work then it's perfectly fine. don't let other people tell you otherwise.
i've been a software engineer for 9 years now in my country. we may not agree on a lot of things but your channel is breath of fresh air, you got yourself another subscriber in me. i look forward to more video like this.
Thank you man i learned alot from your experience
Thank you for this wonderful advise, I really appreciate your videos but this has been really informative.
Chris! It took way too long. However, I accepted my first offer as a developer!
Your first few videos really inspired me. I gave up more than once, however, I'm very thankful for your videos to always reignite my desire!
Thank you thank you thank you.
For the first time in my life, I love my work, i am paying all of my own bills. And Im excited for my future.
Yoooo!! Congrats on this! Not an easy accomplishment whatsoever!
Thanks a lot for your tips. I really appreciate it.
I started watching your vid this year and you’ve been extremely helpful literally after 5 month i got my first job and so glad basically from April to August i thank you
Yoo congrats!!
Great tips man, good stuff!
You started at the age I’m turning and I’ve been trying for years. That was motivation enough. Hopefully this is my year
Cool content, thanks for sharing your experience.
Made it to the last part and love this video. 100% true especially the money part.
I’m 1 month into my bootcamp. I plan on starting a channel just like you. Thanks for the inspiration!
Which one did you attend? Did you self study any before?
Not only do you teach us about your tech journey, but you also show us the importance of financial education when you're up there.
I don’t gonna give up, I’m super new and I know that very soon I will be working as a software engineer, I can’t give up 💪🏻
I’m in community college which is free for cyber defense but I’m learning front end on my own I want to be very valuable in my cybersecurity career I know I could do it a different way but I understand that everyone’s journey is different and I am more comfortable this way like you stated when talking about the guy who quit to become a teacher it’s not going to be easy but it will be well worth it in a few years thanks for the motivation family
i'm a junior web developer and i must say this video has been the most ispirational for me thanks man u r great.
Glad you have been in tech for so long. That is an amazing achievement. But I feel like I've seen this same video from you like 3 times lol. Anyways you are looking great! Keep up the good work!
Yeah I make it every year. This time it was about what I learned after seven years 😅.
Dont regret spending money, it's a lesson you grew from. It made you more aware, you know what is like to have toys and cars and now you can easily move on. Regret messes with our heads. It's nothing to regret if it makes us grow. Don't be hard on yourself :-) We've all been there! Nice Vid. Cheers!
nice refreshing quality content here, im a system administrator (linux/windows etc) thinking about going back to programming at 44 years old... (im not a beginner I coded some C++ 20 years ago in native) so it's nice to see this refreshing and eyes opening because I live so far away from everything tech related in the usa in north quebec, so I am trying to create a remote 100% career we will see next year thinking about going the JS/React route and be a 1 man business maybe will see or work somewhere
the last piece advice was unexpected, and SO damn true. At the end of the day there are a lot of things we buy that dont really give us much happyness, but theres nothing better than feel SECURE with savings. As someone living alone almost laid off without any savings the amount of stress I was subjected to was indescribable
That's one of the amazing benefits of having a decent support system or a partner, but many people don't have that and I feel ya. Nothing beats properly investing and saving from an early point and jumping ahead!
great advice!
For me at 38, im finally exhausted of working low paying jobs especially in todays economy. Thats why i im self teaching programming and aspire to be a full stack dev.
Definitely being aware of the realities of the tech sector i know its a tough market rn but at least i can say i have some programming knowledge now.
From where are you learning them?
same, but 36. let’s go!
What are the realities of tech? I'm new to the tech side so I would like to know haha only recently started getting into web development because it's in one class for the course I'm doing
You inspired me to try this out. Im building apps as a hobby
i have been doing programming since god knows when (apple 2e).
i love it and it is either you love it or not.
and a lot of common sense involved
Keep in mind having a family can impact all of this. Also, you can totally get stuck at a company if you niche out. I'm AEM frontend. Can't easily jump into react/next because my senior level experience is very niche. Lesson to jrs, be careful with the tech you focus on.
lol same issue here with a different tech. Saw it coming and got more full stack experience, but I wouldn’t be able to stand out or command the same salary the way I do with my niche
@@benjaminw309would you recommend looking into fullstack? I'm on my way becoming a web dev right now and I'm thinking about trying to get into software developing at some point once I'm good enough.
I’m about to start a coding boot camp and man I hope that in a year I can come back to this exact comment and say that I made it
wish you goood luck,!!! also what was the fee?
Do big things homie!
The part about learning through building something you want describes exactly what I am doing in Java. I got a scholarship to go back to school and programming seemed interesting. Just finished the first semester and I am hooked. This whole semester I have been working on little projects so every time we learned something new I would get super excited to use it in my projects. My classmate friends didn't do this and they struggled more than I did.
I get the part about being careful with your spending. I just want to be able to provide for my son and keep up with home and vehicle maintenance. I don't want a bunch of cars or phones. I would like to have a nice desk with a fancy chair. Not depending completely on insurance for my meds would be awesome too.
I started watching your videos since late 2021. I'm a career shifter and successfully became a web developer since January 2022.
Your videos served as an inspiration and a motivation when I was still starting out. Thank you very much!
How long did it take you to find employment?
Making learning fun is a huge thing. That's what I did with python. Learned loops and import modules and a lot more just with rock paper scissors. Had a blast doing it too. Then when I got to it in college, 90% of the class was basically review
I’m currently teaching myself python now. I’m having trouble keeping interest lol, would you mind explaining your method using rock paper scissors?
thanks so much
the legend speaks 👤
thank you so much
so i recently quit my plumbing job because i wasn't happy and was only there because i was told it was easy and high pay, i recently turned 21 and waa working as a construction plumber for 8mo and wasn't happy because i just couldn't imagine doing this my whole life with kids and family, so a week after my birthday i quit and turned to into web dev, i always had a passion for computers and just online stuff since a kid so i made a big decision to quit my job and go to a web dev bootcamp and start from there but i start in 1 month so meanwhile i been studying myself by learning how to do little by little on youtube, i have no idea what im doing but i am learning this is all new to me but i enjoy it im from worcester, massachusetts. i would appreciate and open to all advice and tips you guys would have for me. 🙏🏽
Yeah the trades are gonna pay HUGE in the future when they are super hard to get a hold of lol. Electricians, plumbers, welders, carpenters, HVAC techs, etc. will always play a critical role in their respective fields and command good wages. It's great you found your passion though, cause life is too short to do something you struggle to wakeup for in the morning.
amazing video, i defiantly love this view on having fun with learning, i 26 never did college been self teaching myself web-dev for about a year now with Free code camp and many many side projects for fun all in the name of learning Javascript, trying out frame works like react , learning to use create react app, vite, some Jquery too, also making sure i keep up with my vanilla writing and learning D3 with FCC rn. I don't leetcode as much as i should but i have fun doing it, there's something about the feeling of finally finding a solution to a problem that feels amazing!
My question would be should i keep refining my skills in Javascript till i know they are peak, or should i start learning other languages now?
I am 32 and looking to getting into this, when I was in hs I did a trainer program for HTML and been doing HTML and CSS on and off, I really want make web development my career, I just been having confidence issues and switching between so many career options
When I get my first job in tech I should learn and build as much as I can, sharpen my skills by taking on challenges, and prioritize saving as much as I can so that the first time I get laid off I will have the skills to get my next job and the money to make it to my next job and my second check at that job.
Life is really kicking me in the ass right now I cant even land a tech job it sucks
First of all, great job losing weight man! Also wanted to commend you, I've been learning to code (slowly and for a very long time). I look forward to your videos for some external motivation.
Ty for noticing 🙏
Wow! And here I am just saying I’d be happy with $120,000. Way to go with those amazing salaries. I really just want to jump in the sauce and learn as much as I can and get to the point where I can go to any programming language and enjoy it as much as some of the people that you see here on UA-cam. I also want to help other people with a UA-cam channel. I first was interested in cyber security, then my school shut down in 2016 before getting my bachelors in my last year. It was ITT technical institute. Of course I went to a different industry, driving trucks. Maybe I’ll post about my story later when I get back into Tech
I'd add this to the money point: you don't know how long you can keep up with new technology coming out. I'm not expecting my career to last as long as I want to, I expect it to be cut short one day when I can't keep up the learning. And that's the day I'm saving my money for :)
Yep smart people get IN and get OUT when the time is right! Pivot to another career, content creation, or get rich off investments while pursuing personal projects and businesses.
I'm still in highschool, and I've been interested in becoming a web developer for a long time now. what are some tips for people like me? or what can I do to make sure I know enough? I'm currently on a break from school this year, so I've been using my time to learn as much as I could, though I still feel I'm not doing enough. most of what I know is Javascript, but now I'm learning React. I tried looking for people who were looking for a junior developer so maybe I could learn more, but unfortunately they all required degrees
Sir! I just want to say, thank you so much! Your mistakes are already in my notes. Please tell us more :)
Last point I really need to take to heart. I was making 30k-ish a year, then I got my first job in tech making 77k a year. First year immediately I just spent it all with nothing to show, and I was still living paycheck to paycheck because as soon as I upgraded my pay, I upgraded my lifestyle. In theory this is fine, it's part of the reason we work hard to make more; however you have to have some restraint. It can be tempting getting that luxury apartment after living in the hood, or getting a new luxury car, etc etc...but it should never be to the point where you can't meaningfully save or invest every month. Now I try to live by the principle that my total cost of living should never be more than 50% of my monthly take home pay.
Yo!! congrats on the amazing pay bump! Yes please do your best to live below your means.
I went from 12k in expenses down to 6k/m. (I was making 12k/m after taxes)
This was huge especially after being laid off.
Is it a good idea to start learning stacks like MERN while I am still in high-school, or should I just keep my focus on Data Structures and Algorithms (we use C++ for that learning purpose)?
Edit: added the question mark xd
If I was in high school again I’d learn backend, do my best to get a scholarship at a legit college like Harvard and etc, get your BS in CS and masters in machine learning/AI.
I bet you weren’t expecting this type of answer haha
Subscribing!!
fullstack❤
Bachelors degree in computer science or computer information systems? I can’t decide, I’ll be starting college in January
I’m young and aspiring to become a web developer.
I’m just 14 and I’m halfway done with learn all I need to know about HTML & CSS
A word of advice pls😁?
Im about to give up on frontend dev man, have almost a year since I started from literally not knowing what html was but im stuck on js and react. It happens that I understand the code and why it goes like that but if I have to write it on my own I just dont know where to start 😞😞(been making projects but still, progress is too slow).
Exact same problem here with JS.
JavaScript is tougher as it's actual programming and requires a shift in mindset. They are much harder to pickup and master, because they are more complex and command higher wages in the job market. Those will bring your value up A LOT as a developer, but it takes a good amount of time before you'll even feel decent in them. If you like what you do.......don't give in cause your breakthrough is on its way!
Just code, code, code. Do projects you like, even simple websites. You will make a lot of mistakes and that is normal, that how you learn
You like my cyber tech uncle
Technically you still only use things so you could sell some stuff and try to get them back some of that liquidity. Obviously, somethings will depreciate in value so it won’t be 100% back but you can get something.
Hey Chris, how are you bro? One question. I’m recent graduate as a frontend web dev from Amazon, how Can practice for the technical interviews? I want to start applying to companies
I heard that a lot of people use leetcode to practice!
Any suggestions for free resources for someone with zero knowledge and experience??
What camera and lens do you use?
R3 and Canon 24mm 1.4
Bro how to find if I should join Company A or Company B
Would you say that it is still worth studying coding?
Very much so
So Python and what else are the most used by freelancers today. That's what I would like to get into. Also marketing and sales.
Python jobs are hard to come by..............build some solid projects and learn SQL cause it's needed in most jobs requiring Python. As for what is most used, it depends on the stack you're into. Backend -> C#, Java, Python, SQL; Frontend -> HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Angular, NodeJS.
@@TheSoulCrisis Thank you for the heads up :)
Did you drop a hint for the next guest on your podcast 1:48? 👀
Lol!! Who’s next?
@@RealChrisSean Shawn Charles!? Tech Rally? Dang can be anyone
Hello chris, I am in need of help. I just got into freelance web dev and I am frustrated with designing websites. This is really a problem for me because I am not good with designing I just code. Please I need help 🙏
Idk why I thought like early 2000s when I seen “7 years too late”😂
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@@RealChrisSean I’m 23 lol I was thinking of tech in the early years really
@@RealChrisSean I’m 23 lol I was thinking of tech in the early years really
so web dev in 2023 is still necessurryyy right?
Hello Chris , I'm Nicolas, proudly Colombian. I lack job experience and have been learning coding for just a week. I tried your channel and noticed your effective explanations, like the one about your routines as software Engineer. My mother's job is affecting her health drastically. Despite my limited experience, I've learned English and I'm determined to do whatever it takes. My idea is to implement a win-win strategy for small projects, rather than just relying on platforms where only the most experienced person benefits. Could you please reach out to me briefly? I could use some assistance with something.
Hola Nicolas, me gustaria hablar contigo y ayudarter. Yo tambien hablo español y estoy aprendiendo a programar igual a ti.
genial, por donde nos podemos comunicar?@@idi4m0nz91
What if what I love is to reach that particular number 😢
So, are you saying the shift is now more towards UX/UI design than it is about the actual programming?
In otherwords, a company could choose from 100s of programmers to write the actual program, but that same company may have a difficult time finding someone who knows what an interface should look like.
In fact, I see a plethora of very formal, high level websites with typos! And lots of websites are just too difficult to use/find what you're looking for.
Especially with governments and the court system.
I think this is accurate, it's hard to find people truly great at UI/UX but it's pretty damn hard to land those jobs too without solid experience.
This is so real. Appreciated.
You know much about the FIRE movement? Lot of software engineers "retired" in their 30's based off those salaries.
You still think becoming a web developer in 2023 might be a good choice? Even with AI on the horizon?
Yup.
Lol noob question 🤣
I'm a fresh graduate, and I actually realize the last part by spending so so much. So starting from now, I'm gonna use the money for investment
Why are you pursuing data engineer role not machine learning engineer role? We are waiting you to talk about it.
I am broke , i am learning to code to find job or as a freelance , is it still worth it ?
@RealChrisSean
7 years ago I was a sophomore in highschool.
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Someone who makes 100K in tech in the USA, how much basically stays in his pocket to invest? It it like 20-30k?
Don’t join a company for the money. This is only true if you already have money. Most people would love to simply make 70k a year.
You have no choice for your first few tech jobs but that changes after 3 years of exp.
@@RealChrisSean that’s good to hear. I’m new in the tech world. Any advice on getting a job in this market?
Why did you leave the $180k company?
2 pre-rolls and in video sponsorshop < 1 minute in, I'm not sticking around for this
Lmao damn yeah I’d leave too.
Do you even code anymore? or just make videos? for ur company and youtube?
SQL & Python. Focused on LLMs now but at work I mainly work with databases.
@@RealChrisSean thank you, I just started learning. Finished css and html. I did Hulu clone and UA-cam clone fully responsive. Im half way tru JavaScript. Im reading and taking notes from w3schools none stop 8 hours a day. After I finish JavaScript I’ll build Hulu and UA-cam again then learn react. I’m learning because u gaved me the hello wake up call! I thank you. I can do this making clones proves it. I went to ucf for computer science and dropped out cus of how they teach things and lots of calc. Random stuff. Wish I started sooner I’m 27
They said that 7 years ago….there are new kids being introduced to web dev every day…so there’s no such thing….they are like a fish in water…they don’t know what water is
Dude is probably a CEO of a tech company, always follow the money. You're paid for your skills so choose the fattest cow before you're terminated. Companies who don't pay their programmers the amount they should be earning is the least accommodating companies.
Dude you remind me of my teacher , you look you like you have not slept for 7 years! 😮
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First
7 years? I started in tech before there was a Google.
Nice!
Why is the chilling type programmers black people? 😂