Meet the Software Engineer Who Abandoned her Successful Music Career – freeCodeCamp Podcast #111

In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Wilkins. Jessica is an entrepreneur, accomplished musician, and software developer. Timestamps: 0:00:00 Quincy's bass intro. If you can guess this 1970 classic bass line say so in the comments. 0:01:00 Our discussion of Jessica's upbringing by a school teacher and single mom, and her journey into classical music 1:07:00 Jessica Learns to code and builds a profitable sheet music e-commerce business 1:35:00 Jessica's decision to go all in on software development 1:44:00 Contract work and thoughts on what caused recent tech layoffs Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp podcast in your favorite podcast app. And share this podcast with a friend. Let's inspire more folks to learn to code and build careers for themselves in tech. Links: One of Jessica's articles - 40 JavaScript Projects for Beginners – Easy Ideas to Get Started Coding JS: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-projects-for-beginners/ The Black Excellence Music Project, Jessica's first React project: https://blackexcellencemusicproject.com/ Danny Thompson freeCodeCamp Podcast interview: https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com/site/were-back-danny-thompsons-journey-from-chicken-fryer-to-software-engineer Danny's LinkedIn course that Quincy mentions: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/linkedin-profiles-for-technical-professionals/main-visuals-on-your-profile 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 davthecoder 👾 jedi-or-sith 👾 南宮千影 👾 Agustín Kussrow 👾 Nattira Maneerat 👾 Heather Wcislo 👾 Serhiy Kalinets 👾 Justin Hual 👾 Otis Morgan 👾 Oscar Rahnama -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp