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my story so far

Hey guys. i just wantes to share my story becoming something i think is like a dev.
I was always interested in solving problems. my grandfather has a company with a bit over a 100 employees. one day i decided to start working there. he needed someone to build up the erp system (mostly maintenance). about a month after i started he decided to get a new erp system because the one he had would not fill his needs. not knowing how big this got i told him that i want to build it up. from getting the orders over production with machines to billing.
he agreed. after a short time we knew that even this new system does not fullfill our needs. but it was so damn expensive. i told my grandfather: trust me, i am handling this. no further costs. and i started to learn programming. i learned night and day (visual basics.net, sql, c#). since then i wrote about 8 additional modules for the system in coorperation with the users. today, 3 years later we are far ahead our market in terms of transparency and information flow. i worked very hard for this and it is a great feeling to see that the things i do help my colleagues and are used.

i never learned this stuff in school and i know that i cannot tell that i am a professional programmer.

but when someone asks me i tell them i am a programmer because my solutions work and i think i deserve to call me that.

thanks for reading :)

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  • 8
    Good job! don't listen to the people who says you should had used open source and save time!!!

    & Welcome to devrant!!!
  • 1
    @mohammed thank you :)
  • 5
    In my opinion if your code is used by more than 20 people or so. And/or it's for a company you can say your a professional programmer. I don't care wether someone has a degree for it or not.
  • 1
    I recently got lucky and got an awesome job with a team of highly skilled developers, and I have no formal education either. It's all passion.
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