It’s no secret that the job market for software developers is booming, but learning to code is a great investment even if you’re not interested in a pure programming position.
If you’re a marketer, salesperson, designer or customer service rep, building up your development skills can help you catapult your career toward hybrid roles that will make you an invaluable addition to any team.
A new crop of what we’re calling “/Developers” is emerging: bright, tech-literate professionals who use their coding skills to augment other critical business roles and responsibilities.
We’re highlighting some of these talented men and women to learn more about how their development skills have boosted their career trajectory. First up in this series: Jae Han Kim, an Integration Engineer at Olapic—an Operations pro who splits his time between client services and front-end dev work.
Jae’s Background
Growing up, Jae always found himself tinkering with technology and troubleshooting computer problems for his non-technical friends. He decided to study IT in college at Florida State University, but spent a lot of time teaching himself to build sites and applications through online resources. He started freelancing as a web designer while still in school, building a lot of Wordpress and Drupal-based CMS systems and themed sites.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone.
Find a complete stranger.
Reveal to each other intimate details about your lives for half an hour.
Then, stare deeply into each other’s eyes without talking for four minutes.
York psychologist, Professor Arthur Arun, has been studying why people fall in love.
He asked his subjects to carry out the above 3 steps and found that many of his couples felt deeply attracted after the 34 minute experiment. Two of his subjects later got married.
Warsan Shire (via pilule)
(Source: seabois)
I don’t know…
I like variety
I like the traditional
in poetry,
but I like the strange,
the surreal, the new
forms -
trying to approach
an ideal,
it’s a noble quest you
embark upon.
Making it sound
like a rap,
a song,
you cannot be
wrong
and you cannot be
right.
Do your own thing,
do the same thing
as someone else,
but above all;
keep writing.
John Green (via hardcore)
(Source: voguelovesme)
