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Software Consultant 💻📱 · Freelance · Remote 🏜🏝 · Aspiring Digital Nomad with 3 kids 👧🏻👧🏽👶🏽 · EN/FR · My tweets come with free coffee ☕️

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Cory House on Clean Code

But before sharing it, here are a few words on Cory, from his Pluralsight profile where he’s a popular teacher: Cory is an independent consultant with over 15 years of experience in software development. Cory has trained over 10,000 software developers at conferences and businesses worldwide on clean coding practices, front-end development, testing, and software architecture. Clean code clearly expresses the programmer’s intent in bite-sized pieces that can be reasoned about in isolation. That’s indeed an answer that clearly expresses Cory’s intent in a bite-sized piece that can be reasoned about in isolation, right?

On turning Constraints into Opportunities in your Career

Lack of possibility to work full-time leading to become a developer When baby #2 arrived, with my wife starting her medical residency/internship (where she would work even crazier hours!), we realized that we would not be able to both work full-time. When baby #3 arrived, with my wife still a medical resident/intern, and with my eldest daughter needing to be taken care of during lunch breaks, it became increasingly difficult for me to work in an office with traditional work hours (i.e. from 9 AM to 6 PM). I didn’t think it was possible for me to find a remote gig with flexible hours with my current level at the time, so I told my company I would take a parental leave for 2 years until my wife would finish her residency/internship. I’m delighted to be able to work as a freelance, remote and with flexible hours, doing things I truly enjoy and find fulfilling (like writing JavaScript to meet real-world business needs, I truly mean it).

On Being Freelance and Remote

The magic here is that I’m able at the same time to be the main caregiver for my 3 kids, take care of everything home-related (groceries shopping, cooking, cleaning, fixing things, maintaining the car, etc.), find intellectual stimulation and bring home a relatively good paycheck. Concerning my work as a developer, even though I used to work for the R&D department as a software developer, I now work as an international professional services consultant whose main role is to customize the standard solution to specific customer needs. From a purely technical standpoint as a developer, my current role is way less interesting than what I used to do when working for the R&D department or what I would have been using for the startup that wanted me (i.e. work on a full-stack Node/React web application). Interface our solution directly with a manufacturer of power tools’ SAP using Web Services so that their employees don’t have to enter data coming from orders manually, which frees them to have more time for more intersting tasks which add more value to the company (like building good relationships with customers).

Updates on my coding journey, 6 months later

Decided to strive to become a professionnal developer and dedicate 10h/week to learn web development (HTML/CSS/JS) on the side with Free Code Camp. Aug 2016: Some tech leads in my company saw my passion for code and offered me to join a development team upon the condition that I pass their technical interviews in C#. * Jun 2016: Decided to strive to become a professionnal developer and dedicate 10h/week to learn web development (HTML/CSS/JS) on the side with Free Code Camp. * Aug 2016: Some tech leads in my company saw my passion for code and offered me to join a development team upon the condition that I pass their technical interviews in C#.

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