 What's up team? It's your biggest fan the real cast of Darrow and then in this episode. We're talking about Changing careers team. So let's get to it So team this is what I want to consider the first episode of The daily podcast team so like a show I get on here daily Maybe we'll write some code. Maybe we'll just talk about tech and different things that are going on We'll talk about different issues whatever team but um Today we're talking about changing careers because somebody on the YouTube channel in the comments. They said hey pretty much I'm in the Air Force and I want to change careers and actually let's go pull this up team go last night And I found myself stuck on the question you asked that question being Why do I want to learn to code and they said hey look? I'm prior military aircraft maintenance myself and trying to do a career change, right? So they want to switch careers into software development potentially or web development Do you have any suggestions on figuring this out? Thanks in advance team. So Right you guys you guys know my story. Well, and for those of you don't I was in the army 14 years got out of the army and I was I've tried to I've done so many different things, right there was So I got out and I was gonna be a day trader. That was my original plan So like it was like six months prior to me getting out. I wrote up a whole trading plan I had a whole methodology. I studied in Everything I did I did paper trading. I mean I like I was on a schedule I was on a strict diet like I had everything mapped out and I was learning learning learning learning and I couldn't wait to Get to the real money and then I got out and I didn't get paid. So like for the first Month we were broke and we had to borrow money from my mother-in-law and then The money that I was expecting came in and I went to start day trading and it was the most stressful thing ever Right trading paper money was cool. Right and I was doing good. I was I was averaging about 12. It was about a 12% Daily return of my money when I got to the real money It was nothing like that team nothing like that and then that's when I started to like go deeper into the markets But I stopped trading like I got out of trading and then I was like, well, look, I know code I understand code. So I'm just gonna go to school. I'm using my Montgomery G. I bill and I'll I'll get a degree In software development and then I'll go get, you know, a software development job So I went to school and I was in school and I had to take all these extra classes. There's math class English class You got to take like a some some like some other like you get these electives and then you got your main classes like Programming right that's what I was going to school for and so I'm going to school and I'm taking all these other class I'm going dude, man. And I was like Cuz I have been coding for a long time So I've been coding for a while already and so I'm in math class and I'm doing my math and I'm like, dude, like why am I doing this? I can write a program and so I will write I would write programs to do my math homework and I mean like literally like if I If I had like if there was a list of problems and they were like all the same kind I will have like a function for each different method and then I would just link them And I would just have a program I would just in put put in two numbers whatever two numbers was in my algebra equation And it would spit out an answer and I will put that in the block and Because it was all online. So you're doing everything online and be done and go on to the next one And so this is how I was doing my math homework. I was writing programs To to answer to answer my math problems, but you can't do this in class You can't use this on the test you can't and I'm going like this is so stupid, right? Like why can't any of this stuff be interrelated like you have to like Memorize all this stuff and Google it is around me everywhere. So anyway, so I'm in school team and Then I got I'm going well Unemployment's gonna be up. I'm running out of money I'm gonna need a job and I had a I had a conversation with my ex-wife and She was like you just don't know what it's like out here So I go and I get a job selling cars and now I'm selling cars and I did that for like two years I sold a hundred and seventy four cars and Month over month. I was able to raise my income up until I can't remember how many months I was in But I started my first month. I made like I don't know. It wasn't a lot It wasn't a whole month. It was probably like 1500 bucks and then the next month I made three three thousand and then I made twenty five hundred and then I made a thousand and then I made 3000 and then I made 4000 and then five and then six and then seven then I got to a month where I made like it was it was close to $10,000 it wasn't all the way at $10,000. I got like it was it was $8,000 in sales and Then you get taxes taken out of that and then I had like another thousand dollars and like I sold like new trucks or something So I got like that money and then you take tax out of that and then I got a commission bump So like from 25% and then that that month I sold like eight or nine cars Maybe ten or eleven or something like that. And so you so it the more every number over eight We went up like it was like five or ten percent or something. So I had a percentage bump So it's like probably like just over nine thousand dollars, but after taxes it was like eight thousand eight hundred something but anyway, so And then I'm in the reserves and we got to deploy and we got to go to Wisconsin And so we go to Wisconsin for a month. So I don't sell cars. So I make eight grand Go to Wisconsin for a month. Don't make any money So now that money that I made is it's it's spent on all of my bills from the from the month that I was gone And I come back and it's a sales job and it's like we left on a Friday And I'm selling cars and people buy cars on week on the weekend. So I leave on a Friday So I miss Friday Saturday Sunday. I'm gone for three weeks and then we come back and we have drill like the following Weekend so I miss like five Weekends of sales and so I can't make any money man I come back and it's like I get like my paychecks a thousand bucks So now I'm behind and I'm trying to catch up and the next month thousand bucks the next month thousand bucks And it's like I couldn't catch up and then I started to pick things up again And this is like I started to like market and as soon as I got in the car industry I started I started building websites and marketing like that I was selling cars That was like one of the good things that I did but it didn't bring me a lot of sales It was just like it didn't bring it I don't I don't think I got any sales through any of my websites because I wasn't I wasn't SEO on them And that's another issue with like learning web development is that When I was going out to learn web development taking all these tutorials You learn about the h1 tags and how do you know do all this stuff and react and make all this cool But you don't learn anything about SEO so when you build a website and you put it on the internet Nobody ever sees it unless you go out and you tell a bunch of people But if you SEO it and you put content on it like people will be able to find it like and I could still have those websites Like generating money, but I wasn't aware of what I didn't know back then So anyway team so keep going and then I get a job at Microsoft as a DevOps administrator So now I made it. That's my dream job. I'm there. I'm at the top like I did it I did all the stuff. I wanted to do man. I was in the army. I did all kinds of cool stuff I'm riding a helicopter is man through freaking. I Tanks, right? I've been in the war three times. I come back right sold cars Right most hated profession in the world did okay, and then I'm working at Microsoft, right? So I'm just I'm in awe I'm thinking about back to my high school days when I first discovered computers and Like I booted up and there's that window screen man And now I'm going to work every day and I'm looking at the same logo and I'm there I'm in the building. I got the badge and the badge is my favorite color man. It's like so I'm there And so I and so that you would call this like a full-on career change and at the same time But all that stuff is not even significant. The most significant thing is the fact that throughout all of that team that is that Is that I had I started a YouTube channel So when I was selling cars and this is this was like after but before before I knew about YouTube and I had made like a few YouTube videos But they were all related to something else none of them were related related to code And so one day I was like dude, man, I got to do something people are on YouTube. They're making videos and I started making YouTube videos about coding and I just kept making videos and then I got this job at Microsoft and it was like it all happened so weird man because like I've been studying personal development for a very long time and That's why I gave you like this backstory So you guys could see like it's not all about who you know or what you know There's a mindset that you have to have if you want to go out here And you want to be successful and you want to get it team like you want to completely switch careers And you want to be a success at it? Like you got to have this mindset and when I went when I was able to Switch like when I went in the car sales. I had never sold cars before I just had confidence I just went in and I was like hey look if I make you guys one more dollar than you're paying me then It makes sense, right? Like it's an interview. It's a good investment And all I have to do is get better in every month, right? I make if I make a little more money then We all get to win and they were like dude nobody's ever said that before and they hired me like the next day And so that's how I got after 14 years of not working of having to like look for a job or apply for a job anywhere That's how I got my first job out of the army I just went into a car dealership and I tell people like if you don't know what if you don't know what else to do Like you're all out of options and you you're just like man like Like you're desperate right dude like Find some way to clean yourself up and Just go from dealership to dealership and just ask for an opportunity to sell cars Right and eventually somebody will give you an opportunity and all you got to do is show up and sell cars But while you're there right you got to pour yourself into it Like you got to figure out how to get people to the dealership to buy cars and one way to do it like And I tried doing it is with code, but it didn't work quite the way I wanted it to write I ended up learning a lot more stuff about web pages and web design and all kinds of other stuff But I wasn't like it was It it was the the fact It gave it gave me something to focus on right and then but but of course right There wasn't my mic my thing like my gift wasn't to come here and sell cars My gift is speaking of course right that's why I have the YouTube channel and I speak and I'm making the podcast and I got the code 365 startup lab and all and all this stuff team It wasn't selling cars like they built but but a part of it was the ability to say I want to talk to people listen to what they're trying to accomplish and like in in in Understand systems and processes to take a person from being completely skeptical of buying a car in the car sales people and just the whole situation and all of the stigma to actually Driving a car home that day right so that that in figuring out how to overcome that kind of stuff That was that was the lesson in that But keep going team like there's a bunch of other stuff, right? I was a I partnered with the guy on a startup and I mean just a bunch of stuff didn't work right so so the startup didn't work There was two two or three startups that that didn't that didn't go anywhere, right? I mean we did a couple jobs on each of them, but nothing nothing really ever panned out It never they never turned in into any businesses. So I I'm often I'm working at I'm working at Microsoft and I'm doing my thing team so How to make the switch into tech like if you've never done this before right? I would say in my my lucky break came in two ways It was a guy that I knew who was in the military and when I met him He didn't have a job and when he got a job He needed people who were in them he needed people who could get security security clearances So he needed The easiest way to find people with active security currencies are people who just got out of the military Or people who were who were in long enough to like Like have a higher level of clearance And so like and if you and when I say like recently got out We're talking like within ten years because the clearance will last like ten years or something like that So he needed people with clearances and he needed people with tech skills And he knew that I had a clearance and I had tech skills And he knew that I sold cars and he knew that I wanted to get into tech and so when he got the opportunity I was one of the first people he called and I was like, yeah, and so I ended up going to sell cars I mean I ended up going to work at Microsoft with him And then later on he got fired and that that kind of sucked And then I got fired after he got fired and that that sucked even more cuz now like I was broke But the point that the point of the story is is to start with what you know right away Cuz cuz code code will come like you'll learn the syntax you learn to build the stuff but If you're if you're just starting out if you're switching That means you're entering a job market and you're competing with people who have already been there for a long time that's why switching careers is so scary for people because They don't know what to expect like there's other other In your your your in competition with people who have more time and experience than you and so their resumes look like they have all these credentials So what you got to do is right you have to you you have to play up on the skills that you already have and And in and sort of downplay Your actual coding skills So like you're just starting out and you want to go into web development, right number one You have to you have to you have to get some sort of experience like some sort of credential, right? So so and it doesn't like some people they'll go to school and that's cool Right. You have like you go to school. You go to boot camp. You can take an online course You can do whatever right, but that but I believe personally the easiest way to get the credentials is is to is to Know what you're aiming for right so you know I'm switching careers and I have to play on I have to upplay the skills that I already have the knowledge That's already in my head. So like this person on YouTube they're saying hey like I was in the I was a mechanic I think they said I think they said they're mechanic So I had to go I had to go look it up. It's aircraft maintenance though, right? So so you coming out of middle military you get experience in aircraft maintenance, right? And then I guess the other question is do you have a security clearance, right? If you and if you don't it probably doesn't matter too much But what you're looking for now, right is you're gonna you're gonna look for places and you want to make a career Change I got it right so you don't want to physically work on aircraft anymore But you're gonna look for places and this is this is if you have time. This is if you have time to look You're gonna be looking for jobs at at Places that would need some sort of person who is mechanically inclined Who needs web developers and that's where you would start and so and then and then you would just apply to those places Right and then you would apply for any place like that with the entry-level web developer position And then also on top of that just apply to any place with the entry-level web developer position Any any place at all team and then from there, right? Like you've got you've got Companies companies will come to you, right? If you if you have on your resume that you have all of this experience And I mean like you really upplay it like it and say like you can't it's one of those things like it Out here in the civilian world like because you're competing with other people like if your resume is an advertisement It's just like um like a like an annual report or something like that, right? So your resume is an advertisement So you want to you want to not talk about your skills, but what those skills accomplished so and then you and then you want to sort of put it in a way that Somebody working at a business would understand right and you didn't got to think about who's gonna be reading these resumes, right? So, I mean if you just assume like middle of the pack somebody from HR who cares about the success of the business Then you want to tailor your resume to sort of fit like how can you contribute to the success of the business? So the resume like and then you have you'll have key words in there like at the top of your resume You'll you'll put like junior web developers skilled in HTML CSS and Java script and then you'd have like your GitHub You know Here are some of my projects on and if you don't have a github, right? Then fine just leave that off But you would say like you would have HTML CSS and JavaScript in the top of your resume, right? junior developer skilled in HTML CSS JavaScript and then you might even like put some more words in there to denote like your other skill sets but like not the particular skill but Attributes that you have to have to execute those skills So like maybe you have to be extremely organized to be a aircraft mechanic So you can say with what the what the high level of organizational skills or something like that, right? And so now the person who's reading this resume, they're intrigued they're like, oh, okay All right, and then they look at your your resume and they see your jobs and right? So they'll look and they'll see like US Air Force right and when you get down there You don't want to be like worked on aircraft all day every day, right? You want to write it in a way where they can't really distinguish what you did, but they know that it was done So it could be like You know Maintain the 100% operability of you know, 750 aircraft on an annual basis You know resulting in X amount of dollars in savings or or whatever with some sort of result You want to put all your bullet points like that and this is hard work and some people like yo, man That's the hard work that's like but if you want to make the switch you have to speak this language That's ridiculous, right and and you're selling yourself Are you got to make yourself sound like a superhero in another aspect because you're weak in code Like you can't compete on any sort of experience writing any kind of programs because you haven't wrote any you change it over So you but you can compete on this other stuff because businesses at the end of the day They only need the software to facilitate the business So if you got a business and they make mechanical products or they fix mechanical products And they have software systems in place and they actually hire people to work on those systems Then they're hiring those people solely for the purpose of Facilitating the core of the business which is selling that other stuff So when you come in you got to come in as an enthusiast About the stuff that they're doing that the business is doing because all the other developers are gonna come in just looking for a job They're just gonna come in as enthusiasts for the code that they're gonna write So you got to come in within it with an enthusiasm for that particular thing and also because you have this knowledge Set what a what a lot of people to do is they'll throw away all this previous knowledge They have they'd be like I want to change careers and they'll go off and they'll go into a completely different arena So like you're a mechanic all this time You got all this knowledge in your head from being a mechanic, but then like you go off and you build websites for like I don't know Fast food companies or or ad agencies or something like that When you could really shine in the space where maybe you worked at an ad agency that exclusively did work with Companies that are known for you know highly Mechanically oriented things so maybe like car companies or or parts suppliers or parts of manufacturers or or Companies that sell like kit cars or kit boats or stuff that people have to put together Companies that sell engines right there's a company. There's got to be a company out there that sells engines Like if we go to the internet and go And go into edge there's got to be a company that sell less. So let's see. Let's see aircraft AIR craft aircraft parts So we can go in here right and there's got to be let's see look answers the Kinsey aircraft parts welcome Kintak so who maintains his website? Who how did this stuff get here like somebody has to put this stuff here, right? So let's let's go back there and we're gonna we're gonna find one. We're gonna find up a company that Manufacturers aircraft their manufacturing aircraft parts. So look my pilot store Japson pilot products So we go here my pilot store who Who who somebody maintains his website team? somebody somebody somewhere Right, and so so you're looking you're looking for companies like this and then you're looking for companies that do Business with companies like this that build their websites that build their software that maintain their stuff and then like it you I mean You can go deep you can you can go be a developer at an accounting company Or a developer that works for a company that subcontracted by accounting companies that do accounting for aviation parts manufacturers or aviation companies or or whatever, right? And so that's the arena you want to be in but of course, right? You don't want to restrict yourself and like spend all your time like looking specifically for these types of places You just want to ever so often go out and make a list But at the at the same time right like go on all the job sites and just apply for entry-level jobs Just apply for entry-level jobs and up play the skills the results that you got and if you and there's people out There's never gotten results in anything if they feel like they can't say that they got any kind of results So maybe like maybe let's say for instance, right? You just graduated from high school and you're working in a grocery store and it's your first job and you're like dude I can't do this right. I can't afford to go to school. I can't do whatever your situation is crap And you're just like I got to get up out of this team. I got to get up out of this, right? Right, so there's a couple options, right? You can look at what you're making and you can think about just going off and finding the sales job Because in the sales job depending on where you work, right depending on what state you're in you're gonna get Minimum wage, right? They're like they'll pay you something and then as you become more successful And you sell more you make more money. So right there you're able to take a little bit of control of your time and your effort But let's say for instance right now, but at the same time, right? That's not solely what you want to do. You want to be a developer. You're like, hey, I'm gonna go make some software All right team. So you start applying to these jobs HTML CSS JavaScript if it has HTML CSS JavaScript in it You apply to it and on your resume the job you're working at right now. Let's say you're working at Safeway team It's not it's gonna be it's gonna be Safeway corporation, right? That's gonna be the company you work for and What you do like if you stock the shelves, right? You don't put shelf stocker You put you put inventory management specialist Right if you if you manage the store, right boom, right? You store manager if you work is the cashier you can put Freakin What I don't I don't know Responsible responsible for for I don't know I mean you did to make up something right you supply chain management, right? Or or customer service right customer service liaison or something like I mean you just got it And there's creative stuff you just go on the internet and find some creative stuff team But then after that right cuz people are gonna read this stuff there I'm like, oh man, this person's crazy. You know I'm saying but then you back it up with some sort of results, right? Like if you're a cashier and you're there eight hours a day and you see freaking 700 people a day how many transactions is that right responsible for You know, dude, I mean think about this right if the average person If we if we bring up a calculator Like if the right right you're working you're working eight hours a day and if the average person spends $45 or something like that, right? And you see and you see You know 20 people an hour or something, right? So you let you so you're eight hours a day times 20 people an hour and then those 20 people an hour They spend an average of 45 bucks. So you multiply that by $45 into right and so you're you're you're you you're handling $7,200 in transactions daily Right with the error rate of what when's the last time you got you got deemed for for making a mistake, right? Maybe maybe a hundred transactions ago or something like that. So, right? This is the result right put that on your resume and then that's what's on your resume team And at the top of your resume, it says hey junior web developers, you know seeking more experience in XYZ and then when you go out to apply, right? You're looking for companies that that build websites and advertisements and do email marketing campaigns for Grocery stores team That's it. And then at the same time, right? You could take it a step further You can you can build a website for grocery store. Just go to you go to safeway.com and Build a replica website Like and I'll tell you right like team. So right we got safe way that we got safely right here There's a there's a in Washington in the Pacific Northwest where I am we have this company called Tacoma boys Tacoma boys and Let's see if we could find our website so the website Tacoma boys calm. They're just a grocery store. Just a grocery store, right? So what you do is if you have experience in an industry Is you and you want to get in and you want to get into web development? You just go out and you just find a Local grocery stores find some local grocery stores, right? You've already applied to your jobs for the day, right? You're 10 you 20 your hundred start at 10 10 jobs a day You've already applied to your 10 jobs Saying hey look right aspiring junior web developer with experience in HTML CSS and JavaScript building websites for Small to mid-sized grocery stores or writing back-end code for small to mid-sized You know service service-based businesses or whatever right that boom that goes right at the top right at the top And then when you when they get to your resume, right? You all you've ever been as a busboy or a bus girl, but they don't know that it doesn't matter team They're they're thinking about you. How can you make money for their business? They don't care about this other stuff They don't care right? You don't have to be the best HTML web developer nothing You don't have to have all these credentials that people are asking for all they care about is whether or not you're gonna show up to work and make money and In and be a good employee and be a member of the team and not jack stuff up. That's all they care about so Use the stuff that you know team, right? Use the stuff that you know So you go in and right you can go look at this website right here Like okay, all right and just find the local grocery store build a website that looks like this and make it functional So when people when people show up to it and they click on stuff like all the links work and Then you take it and you deploy to github and I got it I got a video where like and you can look you can look on that the file you take you take the website you build it Right you make it all functional with the clicks and in all the stuff make the make them make the make the form work Set up some sort of little mailing list behind it whether make the whole website Functional in the end you're saying like has well what information I'm gonna put on this website If you if you look for local grocery stores in your area I guarantee you can find a website with a crappy group with a grocery store or some market or something some business some business with a crappy with a crappy website, right? But but you your experience is in grocery, but if you have to expand then expand Right, let's look for restaurants. What little restaurants here have a crappy website? So you go grab the rest so you go to the restaurants crappy website And you're just gonna take the text from their website and the images that they have and the way that they have them laid out You're gonna use better images and you're gonna lay them out better You're gonna make the website look better. So you go find a loser website. So let's so let's go look Let's go find a restaurant. So I'm gonna look for in Washington. There's a bunch of Thai restaurants Thai rest you want Alright, so it's tons of Thai restaurants everywhere. So let's see if we can find a Thai restaurant We're just a straight up Website All right, so we got so we got this website right here. This is it. This is a decent-looking website, right? So we're gonna save this one. So we'll take this down Well, we'll close this and we'll save this and we'll go back Man come on dude All right, so what we'll do is this we're gonna we're gonna Go down here. We're gonna grab this we're going to open in new window All right, so now we got that one and now we'll put that here We're gonna go back and see if we can find a crappy one And you know what the crappy ones are probably gonna be way down at the bottom because Nobody has ever search engine optimize the website. So let's see Thai food group on Thai cuisine Alfreda and look I'm getting places all the way in Georgia So this is on an open table Spokane, okay. So here's Spokane. This is probably a nice restaurant, right? Look at this website This website is garbage. It's a garbage website. So you go out you find a place like this You look at the stuff that's on here. They got all the text you need you rebuild it. So it looks like this and Then you put it on GitHub and you deploy using netlify and then you you put it on your portfolio website You just build a portfolio website for yourself. It's just a website for you and in and again, right? We don't have to we don't have to be all fancy, man If we go over to LinkedIn LinkedIn calm LinkedIn official LinkedIn Right, we can go over here and just look at how somebody on LinkedIn has their page laid out Or we could build or we can just we can just look for portfolio website examples like I'm trying to get to let's go All right, let's hear. Let's do this. We'll go LinkedIn dot com port slash the real Casadero enter oh See, I don't even know how to work this LinkedIn stuff I think maybe there's a see that goes behind here. I don't know. Ah, whatever. It doesn't matter team. The point is Is that you build it? You build a portfolio website just a home base on the internet just like I have The real Casadero.com which doesn't work right now. So we're gonna go the real Casadero.com actually the real Casadero.net Lafay Netlify.com and then the last video actually deployed that website and it's still not working the real Casadero What's going on here team? What is going on? Well, so that's something I need to fix But let's see. Let's see if we Here look port Folio portfolio web site And there's got to be tons of them out here We got to be there's probably bunch of the people with websites just named portfolio website But we just need an example portfolio website portfolio website information here to create your site in five. We're portfolio Looking for graphic designers. I Don't know team But anyway, you build you build yourself I can show you this website We'll just go to Netlify because I it doesn't have to be anything fancy and this is the same website We built in one of the In one of the tutorials is the look like supreme. So we'll go Netlify.com Login should let us in and then right here the real Casadero is And we'll go right there and it should take us there, but who knows All right, so we got a domain settings there. So here. Let's check our configurations Set up Netlify DNS will have it do it for us automatically All right already has an owner. Yep. I'm the owner and We're going to go add No, we don't need to do that learn more about it. Just go okay Done and then we have to change all this stuff And it'll tell us where we're verified in our SSL certificate of start working. So right now this Kind of works not not all the way but anyway team So you just build a little website like this and then you have it linked to all your other stuff Right and so like I got this links to the the class the store or whatever, right? So you got that site and now you've got this other site that you've gone out and you've built this restaurant website You built it and you built it for this other restaurant that had a crappy website So this I don't even know where it is right now like we closed I closed it But so you make you just build something better and Then you put it in your portfolio and when you apply for jobs you can say hey, right like in under your experience You can either make it a whole different company your own company. You can say you're doing it for the company You're working at right now But you'll put like hey built, you know Designed in new user interface for such-and-such-and-such a restaurant blah blah blah blah blah blah And now you got some more experience on your resume and then you do it again And then you do it again and you just keep doing it over and over again until you get a job and each time You learn something new so if you look once you learn the basics like the like the core HTML core Basics you can build this website from scratch Right and then and then once you get to CSS like so so when you learn HTML is gonna push you in the CSS Because you need CSS to style the page But those two things together you could build this entire website and not only could you build it? You could build it and deploy it and never have to know any kind of programming language It would look just like this it will work just like this It could do all the stuff just like this and you would never have to use any kind of JavaScript or anything team You can deploy it to the internet and It'll work and in all this stuff you see here the forms using Netlify You can make all the forms work So when people fill out the forms it goes into a spreadsheet and you can use if then than that to send emails You can set up a whole system team right you can make a completely working website For this restaurant that has a crappy website and I was done and it's in your portfolio And you're going out of your plan for jobs and you're telling people about this website Now you can go to this company This restaurant that you built this website for because you got all the information on it already And it looks way better than the website they have you can say hey guys I got this website which you like to buy this website from me for X amount of dollars and They'll either go yes or no and if they say yes, then all you have to do is collect the money and go set up the website and now You can say you're your own business and you build websites You got the confidence because you did it you got the know-how and the skill because you learned HTML and CSS And you went and built it and you deployed it to the internet right and you had somebody actually pay you for the thing And so now you've got everything you need you have more Qualification than anybody who's ever gone to any kind of school anywhere You you're qualified Somebody gave you money to do this thing. That's that's the sign of a professional. That's it. That's it When somebody pays you to do something you're pro You're pro you become a professional web developer Somebody paid you before you even had the job right and it doesn't always work out like that You just do it over and over again, and you'll get better and as your work improves and as your sites get better, right? Eventually somebody is gonna hire you eventually somebody's gonna hire you now another thing that I did When I started when I when I what how I got up into Microsoft, right? And it wasn't all me right like I had this person who helped me and reached out to me But I strongly believe that it was the mindset that I had that helped me get there And what I did is I was writing my goals down every day Right. I was like I am a software developer and successful youtuber I am and then I was writing it three times a day, right? I live in this I live in this house in this part of town and all that stuff and things started to happen team And when they started to happen what I did is I did what everybody does who's who hasn't escaped a Small mind who hasn't escaped the limited thinking I stopped doing what worked and then right? I and I and I stopped I stopped focusing on the things that I understood While I had this stable job where I was making all of this money, and I had pretty much Nobody was staring over my shoulder. I could do anything I wanted to do, right? And I mean like it's a it's a it's an automated job. It's a it's a I'm sitting at a desk and I'm a programmer So some of the stuff that I was doing I could have definitely wrote code to just do for me or to help me do it and Been and still done my job and been stellar at it and been okay, right? My problem was is that I was I was so enamored at the position that I had and where I was That I wanted to focus all of my energy on the company and when they decided they didn't need me anymore And it wasn't Microsoft who who made the decision. It was the company that I was working for I was subcontracted Which is what a lot of big companies do they'll go hire another company and that company they'll go out and they'll find the Developer so when you apply for these jobs, you're gonna get calls from a lot of recruiters So one thing to do like right up front is just go to recruiting agencies to and say hey look right I'm an entry-level web developer find me a job because when they find you a job they get paid Right. I got skills in mechanical engineering on aircrafts, and I'm a web developer I understand the names and functions of formats and of all the parts and all the pieces I know how to put them together and take them apart I want a job where I help somebody put this stuff on the internet and convey it to other people Help me find one and you just go to recruiters and if you put if you put your resume on LinkedIn and in all these other job boards like indeed and There's a bunch of them and you say I'll go job boards for tech people and they'll all pop up And when you put your resume out there people to start contact you USA jobs I think it's top secret jobs or secret security clearance jobs for people who have security Cleances or people anybody who wants to work any kind of job for the government just go to USA jobs You can look around there the process for getting those jobs is a little harder But if you're willing to put into work put in the work They tell you exactly what your resume needs to look like and so you just format it like that and then Typically, what will people say right? They'll say college education or experience So wherever it has some college stuff, and you don't have the college stuff You got to dig through your past and find a point where you Did something that relates to that experience that they're looking for and you have to find the end result And then you have to multiply that by ten times So it sounds better than what it was and some people are going to be like your cast man You're being dishonest in team. I'm telling you this right like nobody cares When that when a business hires you They hired you because they need you to help them make more money and All they're going to care about is if you do that or not So after you get through the door the rest is up to you Either you make it work or you don't but if you want to get through the door in a field that you've never worked in before That's what you got to do team. It's just the way it is right like when I remember when I went into selling cars I knew nothing about selling cars and nobody would tell me anything It was like there's there's stuff that I'm figuring out right now today two years after I saw dude I worked at my house worked at Microsoft doing dev ops for two years and there's stuff I'll wake up in the morning and I'll be like, oh wow. This is why that worked that way I never knew how it worked back then, but so I'm still realizing things team and that's just that's just the way it goes but Every every so you're never gonna know it all you're never gonna know it all but You're in a chess game is you in the business the business is looking to get the highest Quality of product for the least amount of money just like in people some people don't like this They get all up in arms all businesses just want to take advantage of people and this that in a third right like Nobody nobody goes to the Safeway or Wincoe or or McDonald's in In in in acts in acts to pay top dollar for the hamburgers or or the clothes or the furniture or anything Right, there's people who do so I won't say nobody those people They're rich and they got rich because they're thinking the way that I'm talking, but Your average person they're looking for the best deal So if you're looking for the best deal all the time Why wouldn't a business be looking for the best deal all the time team? So what you got to do is you got to present them with the best deal Get your foot in the door and then from there you run and how you do that team is Is you do what I said your resume and then you build the sites and then you put them on get hub and you put Them online and you deploy them you go out and you pitch them to other companies You bring you set them up so they bring in traffic And if the other couple if the company that you put the title on doesn't buy the site fine Fantastic go to every Thai restaurant in town and if none of them buy a fine Fantastic if you get if you start getting traffic to this restaurant put advertisements on it sell advertisements And then the other app and then the advertisers in your area go to the business that go to the businesses that advertise Like when you go when you type in a restaurant at the top like you get advertised so I can type THA I I You rock Right, and then you have like there'll be ads at the top And so you just find a restaurant that's paying for ads and if none of them paying for ads then fine you just Get as much traffic to the website as you can and then you can go to these restaurants And you can say hey look right I got I got I got I got freaking X amount of people come in here And if that doesn't work then right you got this website you built It's a Thai restaurant website is getting traffic people are coming there But there's nowhere for them to go buy the food so you can go out and you can look for people who are going to start Thai restaurant if I hey look I got this website is already getting traffic make your website make your business this name I'll sell you the website and now and now you got traffic and And this isn't an overnight thing like you don't just do this overnight this takes time This is why I regret I didn't started doing it doing it a long time ago, but Maybe that's the reason I'm able to sit here right now and tell you about this stuff team If you want to switch careers That is how you do it you got to be sneaky about it, man You got to go in through the back door You just can't run up through the front door and try to compete with all these people who've been who've been in the game for a long time because you I mean or even like Just just their their street cred looks better than yours They may not even have it, but their resume just looks nicer Right, so you got a you got to up them you got a up them team because they got no experience They got knowledge, but they got no experience. So you got to say hey look experience is more important than knowledge And then you go out and you apply The experience you have in doing the other stuff along with your knowledge of code and you outperform them You outperform them by by picking a spot where they won't think to look and Attempting to dominate that spot and that's like dude like Entry level HTML CSS boom you can build this stuff and then from there once you get proficient at it Just like yo less how do I get into JavaScript? How do I animate this stuff? How do I build API's how to do page redirect and every time you learn something new it goes on your resume And that new thing you built you can put on your resume because you built it to enhance the sites that you've already made In the past team that is it. I'm your biggest fan the real Casadero I look forward to seeing you guys in the next episode if you want to support the channel check out the code 365 startup lab Come team. I will see you in tomorrow's episode