🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses Meet Cassie Lewis 🇺🇸! Cassie has a fine arts degree, which turned out to be too fancy for the real world. After working in different fields, from photography to retail, she got interested in coding - and it turned out to be just the right fit with how her mind works! Cassie is fueled by curiosity, creativity, and challenges. And learning to code alongside a day job was certainly a challenge. Two years into her learning path, Cassie realized she had hit a wall. In an attempt to get unstuck, she joined the Scrimba bootcamp. She also challenged herself to read more non-fiction and embarked on a path toward effective living. In this episode, Cassie explains effective living and how it can make you a more effective coder, too! You'll hear how Cassie defeated burnout, how she approached learning, and how she - only nine months after joining the bootcamp - landed her first dev job. This is a story about setting goals, establishing systems, frictionless networking (even if you don't live in a tech hub), and keeping your plans realistic. But also: this is also a story of creativity and exploration! 🔗 Connect with Cassie - 🧑💼 Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/clewisdev - 🌐 Website https://www.clewisdev.com/ ⏰ Timestamps How Cassie went from a fine arts degree to retail to coding (01:24) How Cassie chose her careers and roles and basically created her last retail position (03:35) Cassie originally discovered coding through WordPress (05:11) Is coding similar to making art? (05:47) Learning to code was a gradual shift (06:53) Why you should maintain some balance while learning to code (08:39) How Cassie managed her self-confidence (10:03) Community break with Jan the Producer (10:59) Resources Cassie used to help with her mindset during her coding journey (13:39) What is effective living (15:39) What did Cassie do to put herself back on track when she slipped? (19:32) Cassie's systems (21:13) Identify the key pillars in your life (23:07) How Cassie landed her first developer job (26:50) You never know who can help you (28:07) How's Cassie's new job going after three months? (34:15) Getting paid to learn on the job (35:54) 🧰 Resources Mentioned - Scrimba Bootcamp https://scrimba.com/bootcamp - How Johnny Learned Angular and Typescript in Three Days https://podcast.scrimba.com/135 - Cooking Up a Career Change: Overcoming Burnout and Finding Your Why, with Scrimba Student Jimmy https://podcast.scrimba.com/115 - Essentialism https://gregmckeown.com/books/essentialism/ - Atomic Habits https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits OUR FREE ONLINE COURSES 💸 Enroll in the Frontend Developer Career Path - https://scrimba.com/learn/frontend 📚 See all our courses - https://scrimba.com/allcourses ⚛️ Learn React for free - https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact 💛 Learn JavaScript for free: https://scrimba.com/learn/learnjavasc... 📝 Learn HTML and CSS free - https://scrimba.com/learn/htmlandcss 🌲 Linktree: https://scrimba.com/links/linktree CONTENT ID AWDDQSFVYJJELJRD XB35XIWCW4WOZBXL