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THIS!
I made an almost identical journey from a dead end job. By chance I was tasked with making a simple bot in Excel VBA that in the end saved my company millions. I fell in love with programming/development -> went back to school -> am now a full time developer since 4ys.
Congratulations friend.
Amazing feeling 💪🏼 -
This is almost my history too! :)
I studied programming at high school and College, but I just worked in the localization industry (I was a Localization Engineer and now I am a Project Manager). But I always created tools on VBA to myself and the entire company.
But I also use PHP, as I can put the website online and use it anywhere. :)
I am a tester by profession, But I love coding. Sadly my organisation doesn't allow people of my profile to install IDE/ Programming softwares... So I had to work with what I had... VBA, MS Office...
I started to work on few small Ideas, then I and a friend worked on a macro which automates a 5 year old manual process... It became a Hit ! It changed the whole process... My manager started to highlight it everywhere... Other manager started to come to us for helps....
So I learnt MS Excel Vba, then MS Access vba... started to become an expert...
Now the whole onshore and offshore management knows us by name....
This excitement made me explore other programming language band fell in love with Python and JavaScript...
Now I made a virtual bot for my manager....
That small project paved the whole way of my programming passion...
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