Five Eye-Opening Lessons I Learned from Being Fired from My First Job

He went from unloading cargo trucks to being Spain’s best copywriter. So far I’ve only been following English-speaking copywriters. I write landing pages for my coding courses in English. That’s why I hadn’t heard of Isra Bravo. In a podcast interview, he shared his best lessons. You can watch the full interview here in Spanish. I only needed to...

I hate seeing “passionate” listed as a requirement in job postings. How can we measure passion? Is there a quiz, like those magazine questionnaires? “Find out if you’re a passionate coder in less than 5 minutes with 10 easy-to-answer questions.” The best coders I’ve met at past jobs weren’t what we’d call passionate. By passionate, I mean making...

I’m not pouring a bucket of cold water over my head, but I’m doing this challenge. I found it in Kev Quirk’s blog. And he found it on somebody else’s blog. But the challenge started on Bear Blog. Ava started it. But since I don’t have a blog on that platform, I’m doing this challenge here instead. Just like Kev on his own blog. Here I go: Why did...

I don’t have a coding portfolio. By portfolio, I mean a webpage showcasing my best projects. My GitHub account is the closest thing to a coding portfolio. But it hasn’t helped me land jobs. My blog has helped me more. Some time ago, the next day after interviewing for a small local company, I got a phone call. They wanted me to start a company...

I used to be a productivity freak with to-do lists. At a past job, I had a notebook where I wrote down every single action I needed to finish. Small tasks, large tasks, meeting notes… Everything. Later on, I became a plain text lover and kept my to-do list in a .txt file I edited with Notepad: a “todo.txt” file. Same story as my notebook at my...