On this episode of the cavnessHR podcast we talk to Charles Max Wood – CEO and Podcast host of Devchat.tv – Reaching over 70,000 software developers each week.
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Charles Max Wood is the CEO and a podcast host at Devchat.tv. His mission is to create a podcast for every programming community that leads developers to successful careers and meaningful lives. He is the author of The MaxCoder's Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job. Charles is a soccer fan, Ruby on Rails developer, and podcaster. He lives in Utah with his wife, Heather and their 5 children.
We talk about the following:
Devchat.tv
Why are there so many unfilled software developer positions
Should future software developers go to a coding academy or obtain a 4 year degree
How should a non tech founder hire tech talent
Charles’ Social Media
Charles’ Twitter: @cmaxw
Charles’ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmaxwood/
Charles’ FB: https://www.facebook.com/charlesmaxwood
Website: https://devchat.tv/
Charles’ Advice
The one thing that I've been on lately just talking to people about is that I have people come to me and they give me all kinds of reasons for why they can't do what they want to do. Some people believe that because they are a certain minority or gender, they have some kind of disadvantage at doing this. Or, because they grew up poor. Because they don't have a four year degree or because their circumstances just didn't line up.
I don't have time because my time is tied up with other things. The reality is that I've seen people in all of the circumstances and the thing that overwhelmingly has been demonstrated over and over again. Is that if you want it and you'll work for it, you can have it. If you're disadvantaged financially, if you're disadvantaged educationally, if you feel like the deck in society these days really is stacked against you.
I could probably argue that point both ways and sometimes I do. Even if you're right, I've seen people come out of extraordinarily hard circumstances, to be successful software developers and what it really boiled down to is that they just got to work. If you're looking for some movement, some advantage to this, I mean, the biggest advantage is just to get to work.
If I can add one other thing is that I have a lot of people come to me and say, I'm 50 or older. I don't think I can learn to code. I have seen so many people make the career transition. They were accountants for 30 years and it's like, and then I got into software development, and I made the transition and they're being successful. So you're never too old. You're never too poor. unless you have a real cognitive disability that makes it just impossible for you to grasp these concepts, you should be able to do it. Even if you're dyslexic or have some kind of learning disability, it really is just going to boil down to the amount of work you're willing to put in.
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