From Retail to Software Engineering with Scrimba Student Cassie

🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses Meet Cassie Lewis 🇺🇸! Cassie has a fine arts degree, which turned out to be too fancy for the real world. After working in different fields, from photography to retail, she got interested in coding - and it turned out to be just the right fit with how her mind works! Cassie is fueled by curiosity, creativity, and challenges. And learning to code alongside a day job was certainly a challenge. Two years into her learning path, Cassie realized she had hit a wall. In an attempt to get unstuck, she joined the Scrimba bootcamp. She also challenged herself to read more non-fiction and embarked on a path toward effective living. In this episode, Cassie explains effective living and how it can make you a more effective coder, too! You'll hear how Cassie defeated burnout, how she approached learning, and how she - only nine months after joining the bootcamp - landed her first dev job. This is a story about setting goals, establishing systems, frictionless networking (even if you don't live in a tech hub), and keeping your plans realistic. But also: this is also a story of creativity and exploration! 🔗 Connect with Cassie - 🧑💼 Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/clewisdev - 🌐 Website https://www.clewisdev.com ⏰ Timestamps How Cassie went from a fine arts degree to retail to coding (01:24) How Cassie chose her careers and roles and basically created her last retail position (03:35) Cassie originally discovered coding through WordPress (05:11) Is coding similar to making art? (05:47) Learning to code was a gradual shift (06:53) Why you should maintain some balance while learning to code (08:39) How Cassie managed her self-confidence (10:03) Community break with Jan the Producer (10:59) Resources Cassie used to help with her mindset during her coding journey (13:39) What is effective living (15:39) What did Cassie do to put herself back on track when she slipped? (19:32) Cassie's systems (21:13) Identify the ke