Welcome to the Codenopy podcast. We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Aran, and today we're talking about what your boot camp isn't teaching you with Caitlin Gwfley,

software engineer at The Motley Fool, an author of The Boot Campers Companion.

I felt very overwhelmed by kind of the implicit knowledge of the industry and the

jargon that would come up, and I just felt like even though I was learning so much, I still

had these huge gaps.

Caitlin talks about not seeing herself as someone who would fit into the tech industry,

falling in love with data analytics, and then transitioning careers and eventually writing

the boot campers companion to cover some important tech topics that are typically taught at coding boot camps.

After this.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So much like a lot of our audience, you are also a career transitioner. You're a few years into your developer journey now. Can you talk about your career journey and what led you to

making that transition? I started by getting my degree in psychology. Me too. Oh, nice. And then I spent seven years in the beer industry and I basically

got kind of burnt out. Wait, what does it mean to be in the beer industry? For the majority of people,

you're selling the beer. There's a couple people out there that are actually making it, but most

of us are just selling it. And I worked for a brewery

specifically. And so I was in charge of what that beer did in the region I live in, which I'm in

Portland, Oregon, so around here. Got you. Okay, cool. I was doing that, but I was traveling a lot.

And also, I don't like sales. I don't think I have the personality for it.

It was really stressful. It felt like there was a fire to put out every day, every hour.

So I decided around age 30 that I wanted to do something else, but I didn't want to do the

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