 All right, so I am super excited to bring this video to you. William is one of my favorite people I have ever worked with. So William is an immigrant from Brazil who had a background in healthcare and he came to the US and he wanted to get into a career but it was not so easy for him to transition back into a healthcare role. So he went online and he started looking into other options and he stumbled upon my videos. Now he ended up buying my college 101 course and ended up consulting with me. Now typically students who go through my college 101 course are originally Americans and so what to do is a little bit more straightforward but in William's situation it was a little more complicated because a lot of the strategies I recommend aren't available for international students. So we had to get really creative about how we got him a job and he did end up getting a job as a software developer in about six months. So this is gonna be William's story. I am super, super excited to have him come on the channel. He's one of my favorite students I've ever worked with. So if you appreciate me doing interviews like this go ahead, gently tap that like button. Let's try to get this one to 500 likes and let's jump into it right now. Basically I already did the introduction guys but basically William thank you so much for coming on the channel. William is a consulting client, reached out to me a little over six months ago. He's from Brazil and he wanted to get a job in the United States as a software developer or a software engineer. And we kind of worked through his different options and we were able to help him to get a job in about six to six and a half months after he started working with me. And there was a very kind of unique way that we helped him to get a job because his situation was so unique compared to most people that I work with. But thank you so much for coming on the channel William. I'm super, super excited for everyone to be able to hear your story today. Thank you chain. First of all, thank you for having me here on this channel. Being on YouTube is gonna be a very nice achievement of my life. So thank you for that because if you're not exist probably right now I'm gonna be on online college studying for something and maybe after four years I get some result but no, you save me money but more important you save me time. And that's as everybody says time no money can buy. So what do you save me? No money can buy ever. Yes and definitely you save me time. I wanna start to tell the history. So I'm a business guy. I have company in Brazil, my family company and my wife is studying in the United States. I come here and go back to Brazil to take the care of the company. But in the pandemic we stay here in the United States for more than we want. So I start to just work at home and that is maybe some trick is on my head. I had another good time and after I go to my family and go to the doctors I would decide to get to a new path to put my head back together like that. And I start to try to understand how is the United States student programs or our graduates or schools and it's hard for someone who never stood here in high school or never understand how it works. And so few persons on the internet or I can't try. I tried to talk with my friends who live here for since they are young and they didn't give the high answer. And I tried to find on YouTube and I find shame and their video is awesome and it helped me a lot. And I see on the description of the video that Shane had a curse and I didn't like ask or think about the price I just paid because I know the content is gonna be the thing I need on the time. And it's the best investment I did for this by the course and I follow all the steps for the course. Some steps not for my age for my like some things more for the high school. So I just skip that. And one of more important things because on the time I wanted to pursue a degree. So my my target is what degree I want to do what's the paid best for me was the best for the kind of the visa stuff and the best like arrangement for time how many like spend less time. And Shane has like on the same course has a lot of things to help me out. Like I can make some tasks to pass on some course and take less time. But when I went to the college and ask the same thing they said because my visa status I need to follow the regular pattern and some options I don't have. So I said was the appointment and I started to follow try to search now other things and Shane and another guys on the internet talk about the bootcamp. And the bootcamp was for me I really stepped back for, whoa, it's not possible. Four months is like four years. I'm studying medicine before was my background. Just my story. I don't know if I have time to talk about but I have a lot of background on health my family, my wife is doctor and I studied five years in medicine. So I know it's not easy to get a degree. It's not easy to study and get some knowledge. How it can be software development in four months is not possible. So, man, I don't have a lot of options. So four months, maybe at least I can try and it can be a good thing. And I start to research Shane help me with some stuff was a lot of interviews. He's a lot of difficult price is not a cheaper is almost 70,000 is a expensive course and I paid and start and it's true. I learned how to code and 14 weeks was not easy at all. I studied more than 90 hours per week and I studied more than three languages and four stacks is a lot of stuff. I don't know everything yet but I know how to learn new stuff. So I totally support if you want to do a bootcamp, go for it. But some Brazilians guys is talking to me after I said I graduated and I said, it's not gonna be easy at all. If you want to go to the bootcamp, just look at how it's shorter, it's easier but if you not put all your effort like, you need to put this mindset. Okay, the software engineer degree is four years. I want to be faster. So I want to do in six months, four months. So I want to put all the four years effort in six months too, or more than the four years because I want to do more more than that. So that was my mindset. I prepare, I put a mindset, I going on the mindset. I study harder than everybody because that's what I wanted. And after that, I graduated. I started to, I used two weeks to put myself back because it was four months with like a lot of efforts. So I come down a little bit, I maybe, and I didn't tell you. After one week, I graduated. I discovered my wife was pregnant for two months. Congrats, congrats, that's awesome. Yeah, so it was a mix of feelings and everything is coming out. And after that, I just finished all my curriculum stuff and started to search some jobs. And I got a lot of feedbacks. After just two weeks after graduating, I got, I think, five interviews. And one, I want to close business here. I won it and we made a deal. So that's what's the history. After we, I knew chain and I learned the job. Awesome. All right, well, thank you for that little overview. I think from my perspective, I'll kind of tell it from my perspective a little bit. So you bought the course, you reached out to me through the, I believe it was through Discord. Oh, that's right, through email, yeah. And I could just tell you're very proactive, which I always like. I like students that are proactive, they reach out. I'm more than happy to help anybody who reaches out to me, but I can't make people reach out. And you were asking me a lot of questions. And at the time when we first started talking, you were determined to go to college. And so I think I spent the first month and a half, two months trying to subtly convince you that in your situation, maybe you don't need to go to college because you already had a lot of managerial experience. You had a lot of experience, it wasn't healthcare, but you had a lot of experience and that counts for a lot. So I tried to convince you to not go to college for a while. Finally, I gave up. I'm like, all right, let's try to figure out which college we're gonna get you into because you were just convinced. And then we looked at different options and all the colleges I typically recommend for people, like the online ones, unfortunately they weren't accepting international students. So we started looking into maybe like local colleges around your area and we saw like, all right, maybe we can get you through college in like three years because a lot of the options, like you said that we typically use for people are not available to international students, unfortunately. So we looked into that and then finally, you thought about, you saw the bootcamp option and you were like, yeah, I think maybe I can do this. And I'm like, whoa, you changed your mind all of a sudden, awesome, okay. Yeah, let's definitely consider that route for you because you have so much work experience already, like you definitely don't need to get a college degree. I have just one, one consideration on that. Why I changed my mind? Because when I went to the college, I studied all my options. So before you convinced me, I didn't know the real situation for me. That's the thing, something you maybe sometimes you took a decision without knowing real your situation. So that's the one that advice I can tell real know first your situation before you take the decision between a bootcamp or college or just to start a search a job or learning yourself. Yeah, and you mentioned in the software world, like half the people think bootcamps are terrible, half the people think bootcamps are the best thing ever. Well, the way I look at it is you really have to take it on a case by case basis. So it's like you wouldn't use a hammer to nail in a screw and you wouldn't use a screwdriver to nail a hammer, right? Like that doesn't make sense, right? You use the correct tool depending on the needs of the situation. And so that's why in my course, I always have people evaluate their current situation and then evaluate their goals and then see what vehicle, what tool do you need in order to get to your goal? And so in your situation, you had a lot of work experience and I just really did not think you needed to go back to college. Like I did not think that was necessary at all for you. I thought that you could very easily learn the skills that you need in order to get into the job in another way. So when people say like, oh, certifications are the way to go or oh, online courses is the way to go, bootcamps are the way to go, colleges the way to go. It depends on the person's situation always. So after about a month and a half, two months of working with you or so, I think you started the bootcamp. Four months later, you finished it and then right away you were able to get a job. And I give all the credit to you because you just have a phenomenal work ethic. You have a great attitude. You approach everything with a positive attitude even when things get super hard. So I give all the credit to you. You were just like really, really fun to work with. So all the credit goes to you, William. Thank you. I have difficulties on the past, give credit for me. So I take this credit, but what I can tell, I was content creator some while time ago, some iPhone blog stuff. And I know it's difficult to create some content. I know your content is very niche. You spend your time creating some content just for a niche person. You can't waste this time, create a content where it's gonna be viral on the internet and make more money than you do. And I need to thank you for spending your time saving the people time. I like when someone take the time to create a course with the guidance steps. It's different to just click on your channel and it has a bunch of videos. You spend a lot of time watching the videos you didn't need to watch. So when you have a course with the guidance, so you just straight forward, go to the beginning of the course. And that's the way I like more, like when you have made a course. And I know when you made a course, you need a charge for how you are at work. And that's the way the word works. So yeah. Honestly, I don't push the course very hard at all. You probably haven't even seen me push it in the last, I don't know, year or something like that. I mean, it's there. And yeah, it is step by step. You know, like, yeah, the course is step by step. You can also talk to me if you have any questions or anything like that. But at the same time, I put most of the information on YouTube. It's just not going to be like step by step. And it's not going to be, it's not going to have like the worksheets that I have people do. I have people complete worksheets so they can kind of evaluate themselves and stuff. But yeah, I mean, the college system in the US, it's such a double-edged sword because if you get the right degree in the US, especially coming out of high school, it can be really good. It can open doors for you. It can be great. If you get the wrong degree, it can set you back for 10 years, 15 years. And I will put a link down to the College 101 course below. You know? Yeah, please. In case you guys want to buy it or anything like that. Yeah, I can't affirm it for sure. This course saved at least three years of my life. 100%. I don't know about the money, the time, because it's not just this, because the thing I learned, I certainly gonna use it for my kids because I'm not a native United States. So now I don't go to the college so I didn't have the experience to tell by experience. So I have your course to tell him what they can do on the college or on the high school to be more easily going through the college. Because I think two things about college. First for who is, came in for the high school is the first experience for the real life. You know, you need to take your tests. You need to study to get successful. So it's like the real world, right? It's not just plain. It's a real world stuff. So I think college is not just for the money you get after. It's a little bit of preparation for life. I think the phrase I gonna remember forever is one plan, one bad plan is better than no plan. Yes, absolutely. So important to have a plan. So I target my plan. I wanna be a software engineer. So that's a bad plan for instance, the first time but it's the plan I have. And then I start to grow and create a good plan to reach my goal. So that's one of the things like, I remember on my head every single day about doing your course and was awesome. Yeah, if you don't have any direction, if you don't have any plan, you're just gonna be like a leaf that's just like floating around in the wind. So that's why it's so important to go into any sort of thing with a plan. And I do somewhat agree with your take on college, maybe in other parts of the world in the US. I think a lot of young people are actually finding success with alternative pathways. So apprenticeships, online courses, certifications, et cetera. It really depends on the career path that they wanna go down. Like that's the biggest thing to me. And then one of my favorite options is if they do still wanna go to college going to like an accelerated or like a self-paced university, such as WGU, HSU, et cetera, that is a great option for a lot of people because they can get a college degree in less than a year sometimes in many cases in less than two years. I'm right now with 34. I have my experience to take decisions better than when I was younger. And I remember, I think your course helped me a lot is decision on a career, what I want to make for my life. And your sheets about all the path I can make here and your advisors like websites I can search, what the meaningful of the career, what the start salary or what the graduation do after they graduated, that's the things is very important to not make a mistake. Sometimes I wanna be a software developer because I want to create my app, but you're not creating your app. You wanna work on the auto company guys. So you need to be sure what you want to do because if you're not, you waste like maybe just one year but maybe it's a wrong one year. It's better you have like, so that's so important. I keep in town that like knowledgement is everything. So before I take the decision, I think I spent two months searching about the decision I take. One thing I wanted to quickly talk about is kind of just the lifestyle of software engineer and like how it fit into your goals. So it was a software software developer, I guess I should say. So it's like you had certain goals when it comes to a career that is gonna be able to really support your family for one. And then you also had other goals in terms of like, you want a career that you actually enjoy, you didn't wanna compromise on that. So can you kind of talk about how you were able to sort of find that software development is that career for you where you're able to meet certain needs that you have in your life, but at the same time you're not compromising. And you actually told me that you felt like the whole time you were learning coding, even though you were working like 14 hours a day or something, it actually didn't feel like work because you enjoyed it so much. So can you kind of talk about that? Yes, that's is a good thing because when we start to talking, my goal is gonna be a computer engineer, right? I start to searching computer engineer degrees. And when I start to learning more and you send me the links and about how, what is this? And one thing, and claiming my attention was the sheet you said me, I think has just 1,000 software engineers graduating per year and has more than 117 jobs listed with this position. So the gap between the the graduates and the job positions is so much. I think it's like for me, this is part of my attention. Then I started, okay, what software engineers do? That's was, when I see this, okay, I need to pay attention for this position. And I start to understand what the software engineers do. And I understand is almost what was my job, but I'm not a coder software engineer before, but I was like a manager because my company, I was my company, I'm manager. The process of all my company. So everything you do in a company, if you like pay, if you sell, if you anything, any process on my company, my system take care and I'm the responsible to teach the person how use the system to take this process the best way. So, and I enjoy work at a computer. I enjoy work solving problems. I'm doing math. So the main like requisitions for the positions was the things I enjoy. So yeah, I'm feeling, I'm fit for this job. So yeah, I put these are sweet spot positions software because I like it. And the way I decided to do the software engineer is like I put some goals like need to pay me a certain amount after five years. So I put this on the target. I want to have a very good balance life. That was the sweet spot. I take decision to stay on the software engineer. Got it. All right, well, thank you for coming on the channel. Thanks for sharing your story. Story's not over. I think we're gonna try to get you back on the channel in about another year or so, so we can get an update. But yeah, thanks so much for sharing your story with people. I think a lot of people out there are gonna benefit from this, especially those who maybe are midway through their career and they're thinking about making a career change. People who immigrate from another country that have some kind of special difficulties that people here in the US don't necessarily have. I think this will benefit them quite a bit. Yeah, Stephanie, thank you for having me here. Thank you for this interview. I really appreciate it. And I will be back in one year and you gotta tell a new story. All right, awesome, awesome. Let's do it.