> > I'd like to make the switch to becoming a full-time Rails dev, but I > can't devote much free time to developing the skills and experience > required to comfortably say "Take me for a Senior position".
So, just to ensure I'm clear - are you asking for shortcuts to be able to get you straight in to a senior position - or just after hints to improve so you may take a non-senior position and work up to it? > Most of my > free time is spent studying and teaching martial arts, something which I > would not trade for the world. > I feel you, I love teaching Taekwondo... > My question to you is, how would you recommend going about effecting > this transition? Any steps, ideas, advice? > Practice. Start thinking of small, useful ideas and launch sites for them. They could be small sites (dynamically generated) with documentation, or search engine automation/mashups. You then get to practice automated testing, deployment, development. Set up a github account and make some gems/plugins and put them on there for potential employers to find. Start trying to help people on here - I always found that in putting forward help to those just coming in helped solidify my own learning, sometimes I was right (and got a hearty thanks), sometimes I was wrong (and got the chance to learn when a more senior developer chimed in). Either way, you're getting value. Soon you'll be at a point when you can do everything and easily answer questions in interviews (and then you can give more back). It boils down to learn, practice, teach - the same as in martial arts, each stage has it's own learnings and each is important. Cheers, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
