It will only go up from here because this field pays way higher than where I was before. Between my current full-time job, and the part-time work I’ve picked up, I’m making the same as what I was at the top of my career in public policy, and this is just my first position. There are people who spend four-years or more studying coding and never get this far. I had been in policy for over a decade and just flipped my entire career around. “I switched careers in 3 months,” Crissy continued, “That’s pretty amazing. Right now it’s all fullstack, but who knows, maybe I’ll be front-end or back-end one day. Through this, I’ll know how to pinpoint what I want to officialize in even more. I’m very happy with where I am now as an app developer now and the more I learn, the more I feel like there’s going to be so many more options hopefully not long in the future. Now that her new career is taking off, Crissy is actually looking forward to the future, “I really enjoy coding and programming, and can’t wait to continue to become a better developer throughout. While learning and growing in this new position, I have this foundation of independence, knowing that I can solve any problem and ask the right questions. One of the most valuable skills I learned at Sabio was how to problem solve on a professional tech level. Now I’m using all the foundational skills I learned at Sabio and taking them to a whole new level. It was a pretty quick transition which was great because I just wanted to keep learning new things as quickly as possible. Just from a team collaboration perspective, it was a very conducive environment to learn how to code and how to be a tech professional at the same time.”Īll that dedication paid off and Crissy scored a job less than a week after graduating, “I’m an application developer with the California Association of Realtors. They were just as serious about the work as we were. The work we did was going to go on our resumes, we obviously cared about it, but it was very clear that the instructors really care too. It was really inspiring to see someone who knows their stuff and is actually dedicated to you. He was there 12 hours a day, sometimes until 9 or 10 PM. After doing more research, I knew that Sabio was the best fit for me, so I quit my job and went for it.”īesides her cohort, Crissy found her time with the instructors invaluable, “Our lead was Brijesh Patel and he really went above and beyond. I immediately knew this was the school for me when I met Liliana, (Sabio’s Co-Founder.) She explained the whole process to me, how at Sabio you work with an actual employer to get real-world experience, instead of hypothetical classroom experience. It seemed great, fit my budget, and the time length commitment, so I went to an info session. I started looking into other schools and found Sabio. While I was there, it just seemed too big to me, like they wouldn’t actually care about me or my goals. Just like in her work, Crissy started out by doing a lot of research, “I got my first introduction to coding by doing a data science course at General Assembly where I realized there was so much to learn. Within that field, I got to work in a lot of data, so naturally, you get a lot of exposure to coding and I actually found it very intriguing.” I had hit a career plateau not just at work, but with my salary as well. Crissy, Sabio Alumnus & App Developer at California Association of Realtors.īorn and raised in Southern California, Crissy entered college at UCLA with a career path laid out, “I always knew I wanted to work in public policy, so that’s what I studied in school and worked in for 8-years, but after a while, it just got boring.
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