Hi Rory, Many thanks for your email. I have considered a Technical Pre-sales role in my current company ( and past employer ), and in my experience, these are more Sales than development. i.e. still managed by the Sales org. Until you get to Specialist SA's and Consultants, but at least in Red Hat, that still doesn't include dev work. Which is what I'd really like to build my new career on.
I'd ideally like to work building Cloud/Web Applications, and work on back end more than front end. Embedded could also be an option, and I actually quite enjoyed learning C ( although I'm just a beginner there, but I get stuff like Pointers, memory management etc ). I did the EDX Harvard CS50x course, which was amazing. Just need to do my final project for that! Was good to get some exposure to Computer Science aspects. I do have a Github with a few tools I've built - https://github.com/Sebastiaan76 The most substantial one is a web scraper and database loading tool to download FX Tick Data. Feel free to critique! :) Perhaps I could come to Windsor some time and chat? Otherwise, will you be at the Python Meetup on Monday? Kind Regards On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:04 AM Rory Hart <hart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sebastian > > Lots of people here that could help but we all have a wide variety of > career paths. Is there a particular area of IT you’d like to get into? > > Off the top of my head: > > * web dev (lots of jobs) > * phone apps > * devops > * data science > * embedded > > With your sales experience a technical pre-sales career path such as > solution architect could leverage your existing skillset. > > Lastly I am always happy to offer my opinion (ask my colleagues), our > offices are in Windsor however. Would be happy to have a phone call. > > Thanks > > Rory Hart > > On 4 Feb 2019, at 2:19 pm, Sebastiaan Stoffels < > s...@sebastiaan-stoffels.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > Just wondering if there are any experienced Python Developers working in > the CBD that I could buy lunch and ask some questions / get advice on a > potential, major, career change from I.T. Sales into Python Development. > > I'd be keen to address such topics as: > > - Are bootcamps worth the money? If so, which ones do employers look > favourable upon? > - How 'good' do I need to be before applying for a Junior Python > Developer position? > - Identify any other things I don't even know / haven't considered. > > I've taught myself Python over the past year or so, and can figure out > most things given the time, but I have no clue how ready ( or not ) I might > be. I have zero people in my sphere that are developers to ask these dumb > questions! > > So, free lunch at a nice venue ( within reason - no Rockpool! ). > > Happy to discuss via phone, email, whatever is preferred. > > > Kind Regards > -- > Sebastiaan Stoffels > Ph 0419 216 676 > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > melbourne-pug@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > melbourne-pug@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > -- Sebastiaan Stoffels Ph 0419 216 676
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