On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 3:44:54 PM UTC, Mark Moran wrote: > As my title to this post says I consider myself entry level ROR developer and > currently a student at Edge Hill university ( Merseyside ) about to finish my > computer IT degree course. > > Firstly id like to ask any members if they know of any institution registered > with student finance were i can study further for ROR ? > > And secondly if I can find work at the current level im at I would be very > grateful I live in Southport Northwest UK, am limited somewhat though as im a > single parent but hard working and loyal. > > Thanks Mark > > ( Completed works links below..) > > https://morning-ocean-4281.herokuapp.com/ > https://mark-pinterested.herokuapp.com/
Hi Mark, As somebody who's been through that whole entry-level business in the last few years I can only speak from my own experience at the time, but it's worth first getting yourself up to at least a competent junior level as either a back-end (ruby/some other lang) or front-end (javascript, html, css, graphic design) dev. Then you'll have a wider pool of entry-level jobs to apply for (front and back end), as well as benefit from the fact that there are more junior jobs than entry-level. My first rails dev job initially was mostly graphic design, javascript and user interface design. I was skeptical about taking it at the time, but Tekin pointed out that you learn so much once you're doing code (javascript/ruby or whatever lang) every day that you can easily move at a later date; that job ultimately did gravitate toward the back end after a while to mostly writing ruby 9-5. What I'm saying is, find a job and learn on the job; forget further study unless it's building other, more ambitious projects of your own. As for finding jobs, one I found through a NWRUG-affiliated business meetup and the other I found through NWRUG. Not sure how helpful this is, but eh, good luck man. A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
