> I'm currently working on building a portfolio, but is there anything I should focus on in particular?
Since you've changed careers, is there anything you could build the plays on that? Something you can spin a narrative around of "As a teacher, I always wanted to do X, and so I built this tool that does it." Something like "Every term, I'd need to log on to the school web site and copy a pupils grades one by one into a spreadsheet, so I built a web scraper that does that automatically" When it comes to interviewing, being able to demonstrate you have transferable skills and experience you can apply can give you the edge over another junior developer who might be able to code as well as you, but has nothing else to offer - that's a bit blunt, but recruiters are soulless monsters mostly. >From a more personal perspective, and definitely more controversial, so take this as one person's option: Frontend in Rails (Turbo and Hotwire) is a hot mess and very few companies actually use it. Learning some React, and building against APIs you've written, or other people's APIs is a much more transferable skill set. I'd recommend Noel Rappin's Modern Front-End Development for Rails <https://pragprog.com/titles/nrclient2/modern-front-end-development-for-rails-second-edition/> which covers all bases by including Turbo, Stimulus, React, and TypeScript. That has a more balanced approach than a random person on the internet screaming "Hotwire sucks!" ;) On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 12:47, DAZ <daz4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've been a long time member of this group and been coding in Ruby since Rails first came out, but it's only ever been a hobby for me. > > I've recently decided to have a career change from teaching to web development and would like to get into Rails development, preferably in Manchester or remote. > > I know a lot of you on here are already working as Rails devs - does anybody have any tips about what the best things I should be doing? I'm currently working on building a portfolio, but is there anything I should focus on in particular? And any tips about the best way to find Rails vacancies or opportunities? > > I'd also be interested to hear if anyone knows of any opportunities just to get any unpaid Rails development experience. > > Thanks, > > Daz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/16950019-53fa-4139-a45d-6ba94c3c587dn%40googlegroups.com . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/CAPNVErobv6Cg-5mTOmMdNT%3DJMHW8QBYEZ_9JHgMyhvuoz0EW7w%40mail.gmail.com.
