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Sometimes you have to let things go so there’s room for better things to come into your life -
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Adrian Body
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Zita Szekely was having a full-time job as a software tester. She has been doing it for 15 years
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and she loved her job. However, as the market demand for software testers declined, she became
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stressful because of the unpredictable future.
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When you start feeling insecure about what you are doing, then it is the right time to consider
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changing it.
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Having great support from family was the biggest turning point
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It was a great decision that Zita shared with her husband about her concerns for the future,
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who then suggested to learn programming and become a developer.
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%em “It was a silly idea”
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, she thought,
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“I have always been a tech savvy person, but I have never been good with mathematics and I
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thought programming and math go hand in hand”.
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Getting to know about WebDev Camp by attending Rails Girls Tampere, Zita was totally convinced
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that the opportunity is now opened for her and she doesn’t need to be good at math to becoming
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a developer. But the idea of leaving her family behind to concentrate on studying for 2 months
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scared her.
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“My husband was the one who convinced me to go”.
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According to him, from the perspective of an experienced developer,
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“there is no better way to start”.
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WebDev Camp was the best decision
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“Before I embarked on the course 8 weeks ago, I had no idea how to build an application and
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no idea about object oriented programming, whilst coding was a mysterious thing done by other people
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During the first two weeks at the Webdev.camp, we had intensive theory lessons where we learned
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about such things as attributes, objects, models, Active Record and MVC.
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After two weeks we started on our first real application in Ruby, and put all of that theory work into
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practice. Already at week 5, we had a working beta version of our application.
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The whole experience of Webdev.camp has been an intensive and empowering learning journey for me,
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and not just with regard to my new skills. I have proved to myself that if I apply my mind to
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something, and work hard, I can achieve my dreams.”
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After graduating from WebDev Camp, Zita didn’t go straight into finding a new job right away.
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She attended a course organized by a university to learn some Java.
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“It just make me feel even more certain that attending WebDev Camp was a great idea from the beginning”
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, according to her, the course was too formal, there were too much of theory and very little practise.
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“Had I gone to that course first, I wouldn’t have been able to make it”.
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A new beginning
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Zita has just started her new position as a developer in a startup in Tampere called Intopalo.
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She is joyous that her programming language in the new company is Ruby on Rails, which she
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learnt at WebDev Camp.
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P.S: The deadline for Webdev Camp autumn application is approaching.
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if you don't want to miss the chance
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