So I quit my job in the midst of a Pandemic to start an intense full-time boot camp to become a developer... crazy right? Here's my story:

After having worked in the broadcasting industry for the better part of a decade (8 years). I had to do a new morning show, and while doing it I noticed I was excited learning something new again. And right away realised I hadn't felt that in a while. I had worked with so many hard- and software which always introduced something new. But at this point in my career I was mostly done learning. That was the main reason to make me think about my future. I quickly came to the conclusion that I was ready for a new challenge. Coding had always intrigued me, during my job as a Graphics/LSM operator right before a show/football game something would breakdown at which point I had to look at the code and see if I could fix the problem. Often the problem was in the coding, but fixing it was not that easy, but very interesting. So I decided to go out and learn how to do this magic! Looking for a place to learn how to code I came across Codaisseur. This seemed like the perfect fit for what I was looking for, a full time though bootcamp, where I would learn a ton in a (relative) short time (3 months) to jumpstart my new career.

Over the course of 3 months I learned a lot about all sorts of marvelous technologies (from React and Redux to Express and PostgreSQL and much more). After graduating I had talks with a lot of companies who did a lot of different things. It was difficult for me to fully know what I wanted as it all seemed cool! The first job I took was as a consultant, the idea was to spend 50% of the time coding and 50% of the time interacting with customers. Which seemed like a great way to further explore where this journey would take me. After the first month though I had discovered the job focused a lot on an in-house converter that needed to be configured. Therefor there was a lot less coding than I had imagined and I realized it wasn't the right fit for me. In this period it hit me: the wrong decision had led to the right perspective. I learned two important things in that month; I knew what I didn't want and after careful consideration I knew what I DID want. I went out to search for a Digital Agency because I wanted to be a web/app developer. This is when I came across and joined Reversed Digital, a Digital Agency located in Utrecht. I've worked there for well over a year and learned/improved a lot. After which I moved on to Incentro a bigger company to help me grow even more. I started working there November first 2022.