 The tough thing about moving on from your first job or somewhere that you've interned and worked full-time at your first job is that your friends that you've built relationships with are people who started this adulting with you so you were able to be there for each other so your relationships are like really important. Not that relationships or other jobs aren't as important but moving on from college into the real workforce is a big step and I'm just super grateful for my friends who did life with me. Yeah so I really think it's freezing and it was sunnier now it's gray and it's rainy. I'm gonna miss the summer. What is going on everyone welcome to my channel my name is Jocelyn J but most people just call me Jossi. Today it's pretty cold outside it's windy it's rainy it's dark mad early like it feels like it's midnight but it's only like seven something p.m. I really like the sentimental type of content that I can give you all where I'm just literally sitting on an ottoman I got a box slide and we're just having a conversation as if you all are in the same room as me and I love that I love the more sentimental style content it's more laid back it's more relaxing it's off script I just feel like it's more realistic. All right I might as well just cut to the chase based on the title of this video yes I moved on from my previous company and it had absolutely nothing to do with me not liking the previous company I was at I actually I still love that place and everyone at that company is like family to me but in this video I don't want to talk about that company that I was previously at I want to talk more so about why I decided to make a transition in my career especially so early in my career you could say I've only been working full time for like a year and a half like actually less than that but due to my three summer internships at the previous company I was at I got a lot of experience there and I was able to get an idea of what I like and what I don't like which is really important especially when you're younger I think it's super important to know what you like and know what you don't like I think it's funny because my grandma was like I thought you really liked where you were at and I was like grandma I do I did it's just that I found an opportunity at another amazing company that is a lot bigger where I can focus in on a more specialized version of what I do you know that's kind of what I told my grandma but in more of a technical term I went from doing full stack development to now I'm doing front end development and that's like the first part of what the first reason as to why I wanted to make this decision along with the type of software development I'm delivering to my end user so yeah it feels a little weird because I started a new job in like the middle of the year post starting all my full-time jobs or you know internships and full-time job during the summertime with people I know this time I started in the middle of the year and I started with no one because I literally just joined the team a couple days ago and I was the only one who joined the team at that time but I'm also of course still friends with the people that I worked with at my previous company they will always be my friends they will always be my family I just thought it was a good time for me to explore other opportunities especially considering the fact that the role that I'm doing now is front end development and I don't know if I've talked too much about like what part of the stack I enjoy the most but those who know me would tell you oh yeah Jossi loves doing front end development I want to be that like bridge between the development team and the designers like I don't want to be a designer and I don't want to be a back end developer I wanted to be I want to be a front end developer and now I'm a front end developer now I'm a front end developer and it's literally so cool because I'm embedded in a team that is full of designers um there's people who do copywriting there's people who do photography there um are people who do videography and I'm one of three developers on that team specifically front end development and it's super amazing because there are so many projects that I have the opportunity to work on at this new company and one of the reason being is because this company that I'm at now is very very large and um there's just more opportunities to do more things when it's a you know much larger company with much more with more customers and also the type of software that I'm delivering is direct to consumer so I wanted to be able to pursue a technical track through front end development and at the company I'm at now you can literally become like a front end architect a very senior level front end developer because of the way they distribute the type of programming that their developers do or the way they break up each department depending on what stack you're doing so of course if you want to do full stack development or you want to do back end development you can but specifically I am on a marketing team and I'm working with designers I'm working with two other developers and it's been so cool because everything is so much more fast-paced and the environment that I'm in even though I've only been there for a couple days I have much I have many more meetings because the team is a lot larger there's so much to learn it's so much more fast-paced because the things that we're putting out are going into an a consumer's hand a direct consumer's hand so things are just happening so much faster people are a lot more busier and this is what I really wanted to do and I would be honest when I was thinking about pursuing opportunities like this I didn't think that there were going to be really any in the city that I live in I honestly thought that my next move was going to be somewhere else like in a bigger city for example when I saw that there was an opportunity in the city that I live in now at a really cool company I was like whoa that's dope like I didn't even know that his company had these kind of roles and when I started researching about the company I'm at now I started they have a ton of creative roles also if I'm being honest I turned down a number of companies to stay at my previous company because I loved it so much and I didn't think I was ready to make that leap and or the companies that offered me you know internships or full-time job wasn't really the move I wanted to make and I honestly felt like if I didn't make this move I would regret it you know because yes the software industry has a ton of jobs and you know a lot of opportunities however it's not as easy as it seems like not at all it is it can be very competitive especially if you're looking for a niche role like I know I could only imagine how many people applied for the job that I'm doing now and I just thank God for this opportunity of course I prayed on it to make sure it was the right decision at the right time I don't like to leap if I don't have to but I think that um I leaped right into an amazing situation the funny thing is I want to say I like applied for the job that I'm in now um like twice I'm pretty sure either I applied to a similar role or I applied to the same role twice so that's just an example it wasn't easy and as I continue to progress in my career I didn't want to keep doing things that I didn't want to do when I knew that I would have opportunities to do things that I wanted to do because I want to progress in front end development so my job title is actually digital front end developer actually sounds really cool to say that but basically yeah the the job title explains what I do I work on the digital marketing team and I'm a front end developer my advice to you is if you see an opportunity and you think you will have the opportunity to experience that opportunity or experience that career experience that job then do it life is way too short for you to be worrying about what other people are going to think what other people are going to say especially if you're making a move that's best for you or best for you and your family you don't want to have any regrets I'm 23 right now so it actually feels really cool to be able to have you know well over a year really over two years of experience and to be able to move on to a bigger company and experience that and I'm really excited and I definitely think this is a step of faith a leap faith and I'm just really excited like I even got I got a 15 inch MacBook Pro I got a 4k monitor like a 4k Dell monitor like the company I'm at shows me so much love and I appreciate that so so much and I I'm actually programming with you know technology that I really enjoy using and that's that's a perk as well but um I digress I just wanted to share with you all my career change and that's really all I got for this video if you have any questions of course leave a comment down below if you like this video at all if you like this video at all give it a thumbs up share it with someone who might benefit from it that's maybe in a similar situation that's maybe afraid to take a leap of faith trust me it's not as scary when you've already made the leap I promise especially if you really evaluate um that change you're gonna make in your career and um of course subscribe to the channel if you haven't already hit the notification bell so you can know soon as I drop a video and that's all I got I'll see you all later on probably next week stay blessed as always peace think it's time to call it quits witch and tap is broken dishes