Hey, I would definitely seek out ways to work in teams with others. It's non-trivial to find such aspects, and lets-just-say some ruby devs are a bit intimidating (not always deliberately), but working in a team is soo different to working solo. Often much more fun too :)
The recent NWRUG meet was brilliant for this. A good laugh, and showed that great, experienced, people have different strengths, and still all make mistakes. The whole imposter syndrome aspect is very real, but I imagine a very different stress to being infront of a class room of kids, but can be pretty stressful all the same. Defining pyschological safety is not easy for us techies - and the anonymous contributions to open source can feel pretty intimidating or soul destroying when getting comments from PRs without knowing the individual. FWIW, if you're ever fancying collaborating on a low-carbon startup, your good self, or others reading are welcome to have a chat about our volunteer developer roles with totravelto.com - see https://totravelto.com/developers (in the process of advertising in the short ruby newsletter - a fantastic read :) Have a good weekend all - lets hope for some sun ey :) Cheers, Ian. https://196destinations.com Lets help making choosing the train a little easier. Twitter: https://twitter.com/196Destinations Insta: https://www.instagram.com/196_destinations Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/196destinations ----- Original message ----- From: DAZ <daz4...@gmail.com> To: "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" <nwrug-members@googlegroups.com> Subject: [NWRUG] Getting Into Rails Development Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024 12:47 Hi everyone, I've been a long time member of this group and been coding in Ruby since Rails first came out, but it's only ever been a hobby for me. I've recently decided to have a career change from teaching to web development and would like to get into Rails development, preferably in Manchester or remote. I know a lot of you on here are already working as Rails devs - does anybody have any tips about what the best things I should be doing? I'm currently working on building a portfolio, but is there anything I should focus on in particular? And any tips about the best way to find Rails vacancies or opportunities? I'd also be interested to hear if anyone knows of any opportunities just to get any unpaid Rails development experience. Thanks, Daz -- 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 nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/16950019-53fa-4139-a45d-6ba94c3c587dn%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/16950019-53fa-4139-a45d-6ba94c3c587dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/ffce8937-acac-43fe-b811-c400856577a9%40app.fastmail.com.
