How I started my journey into Tech

It all started in August, 2020 shortly after the heat of the COVID-19 wave was slowly dying down in Nigeria and most people were returning to their daily jobs. I was a new intake at a higher institution of learning, having been offered an admission to study Food science - a 5-year long course. I had only just resumed school for 2 months when the COVID break slapped in and I had to go back home until the pandemic is over.

The break started becoming boring when the cycle turned into sleeping, waking, reading books and a little fun whenever it comes by. I had to start thinking ‘What can I learn?’, ‘What I can do?’. Then the answer came on a faithful August morning when I tuned in the radio and heard an advertisement about a tech institute situated right in the city where I was having my undergraduate studies! I mean I was sitting few blocks away from a goldmine😀. So that was how I started; I made enquiries, got my starter kits and here I am: a fullstack web developer.

But was the journey smooth? Emphatic NO!

Has the peak being reached? Not at all.

But I can assure you that’s one of the best decisions I ever made. The journey detailed nights and days of coding and debugging, learning, building projects, sucking at stacks and later mastering them.

You might have started your journey and you are almost giving up because it’s a lot of headache already. No, you shouldn’t! The journey is not designed to be smooth but it can be more easier if you work with a mentor and join a community of like-minded techies online or in your community because I did too. There, you get to find answers to your so many worries. What you are facing has probably been faced by someone else (like me).

Currently struggling in your tech journey? Or just starting out and you are confused on how to? Drop a comment or just share your own tech journey story, I’d love to read it!