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S17:E6 - How to transition into development after over a decade in your field (Christine Fletcher)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

No matter how long you've been in your career, you can always dive into your coding journey

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Code Newby Podcast.

0:07.0

We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

0:11.0

I'm your host, Suran, and today we're talking about how to transition into development after over a decade in your field

0:17.0

with Christine Fletcher, UIUX developer designer at Kapsfire.

0:21.8

Looking at the development process versus the nursing process, they're very similar.

0:26.2

You know, you have assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and that's basically the same thing in tech.

0:32.8

Christine talks about experiencing burnout working as a nurse and deciding to take the leap to learn to code,

0:38.6

what her experience was going the boot camp route to learn, and how she landed her first coding

0:43.5

job after this.

1:00.6

I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Pamela Anderson.

1:03.4

All thanks to the Dove Self-Eesteem Project.

1:07.3

We speak about the impact Y2K has had on women's body confidence and how Pamela has regained control.

1:09.7

The Dove Self-E-esteem project is an amazing initiative

1:12.3

supported by science-backed methodology to help us improve our relationship with our bodies.

1:17.4

To find more body confidence building exercises, go to Dove.com forward slash Y2K. That's Y2K

1:24.3

spelt W-H-Y2K. Thanks so much for being here.

1:28.6

Yeah, thanks for inviting me.

1:30.5

So you got your first developer job after being a nurse for 16 years.

1:35.4

That is quite a long time.

1:37.2

Tell us about your transition from that career into this one.

1:41.0

I said I was a nurse for 16 years and just the last like five years, five, six years of my

1:49.0

career, I just really started feeling burnt out and wanted to do something else. But I wanted to do

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