My life before Makers Academy

The context: ten years ago, I started my studies in Nutrition Science. I found it interesting to study food and its biochemistry. After graduating, I realised that real life was different from what I learned at university. I would like to study science and not prescribe diets for people who want to lose weight.

I was not happy and decided to move to London.

I worked in the pharmaceutical industry in a cleanroom environment for two years. And as enjoyable as the job was, there was still something missing inside me that didn’t make me completely happy with my career.

This is me working with Food Science

I knew that something had to change in my life, but I wasn’t quite sure what or how. The only thing I was sure of was the reason.

I tried the entrepreneurial life. I sold twelve cakes online on a newly created website, using the Google Ads and Google Analytics tools I had learned by taking a Digital Marketing course on the Udacity platform.

I continued generally working in the pharmaceutical industry while maintaining my website. However, when that marketing course ended, I enrolled in a Javascript course for beginners from Alura that taught me how to replicate classic games like Pong and Freeway just for fun.

Pong — the classic game created by Atari in 1972

I wanted to learn more about programming and started studying JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures through freeCodeCamp.

At that moment, I discovered Makers that had a Bootcamp that could change my life. I looked at myself in the mirror and asked: “Is this what I want? The moment to change careers is now”. The answer was yes!

I did all the step-by-step instructions they sent by email. I reached 100% on Codecademy and 132 Honor points on Codewars. I learned a lot in this process, because everything I didn’t know, I would research on Google and the Ruby documentation.

Her name is Quackie, but she said I can call her Miss Pata

Today I feel like a rose after drying. The plant is not dead yet. So if you cut the stem, a branch with a beautiful rose will grow.

That’s what I did: I cut the path that wasn’t making me happy to be able to follow the way that I’m interested in and find fascinating.