From an out-of-school two-dimensional girl to a core member of React

Hi everyone, this is Kasong.

Everyone wants to enter a big factory these days. Many friends who have real talents and learning are turned away by Dachang's academic requirements.

Is it really impossible to enter a big factory without a degree?

Today, let us take a look at the React core member of Rachel Nabors all the way from the second element girl to the designer, and then to the core member of React

Perhaps her experience can bring some inspiration.

Two-dimensional girl growth

Rachel grew up in the countryside of Virginia. Every day, there are trees, trees, and trees everywhere.

GameBoy is a fond memory of her childhood.

After playing a lot of games, Rachel even came up with the idea of "make your own game". The initial goodwill for programming probably originated from this.

Her other hobby is anime, to be precise, Sailor Moon .

As a two-dimensional girl who was born and raised in the American countryside, chasing fan is a headache. The TV broadcast of Sailor Moon was suddenly stopped when the plot was most critical. Isn’t this anxious?

The new fan is the order, and the chasing fan is the life. The young Rachel had a clear goal for the first time:

1. I want to go online to find resources on Japanese websites
2. In order to achieve 1, I want to learn Japanese

This experience made her realize two things: the charm of the Internet and I can do so many things through self-study .

Two-dimensional grassroots webmaster

For some reasons Rachel did not go to college, where should I go in my next life?

"Some people use the money they earn to buy a car because they think the car can take them to school or company. And I firmly believe that if I have a laptop with internet access, he can take me anywhere in the world."

So, Rachel bought a laptop with all the money saved as a waiter, and assured her mother that would make money online , the family finally opened broadband (costing 20 dollars a month).

Really-Village Netcom.

Now that the computer is available and the Internet is connected, the next step is to consider how to make money. The two-dimensional girl decided to start with anime.

She is going to make money by selling her comic books, how to promote it? Through self-study, she built a comic community website and hosted it on the service of Drupal

How to sell with traffic? She taught herself to install osCommerce (an e-commerce website building tool) on the server.

How to communicate with customers? She taught TinCanPHP .

After some tossing Rachel found that she spent IT than drawing cartoons.

As the work progresses, there are two paths before her:

1. Concentrate on learning classical art and anatomy (toward art development)
2. Concentrate on learning web development (toward development)

However, something happened.

Life is like chocolate

Life is like chocolate, you never know what the next one is

Just when Rachel future development direction, she needed a big jaw surgery. And comic-related work cannot provide health insurance.

Therefore, driven by life, Rachel ushered in the first formal job- web development.

CSS expert on a bumpy road

web developed under the name 0613749ce286aa, colleagues found out: Why is the artistic foundation of this development so strong?

So, slowly, the Rachel in the minds of colleagues has become: designers who HTML and CSS

Soon, Rachel found out that she didn't like designer work. To be precise, she didn't like being pointed at the screen and said: "Well, this icon is bigger~" this kind of work.

If you are a programmer, you can pretend to be thoughtful and say, "I will consider your suggestion" after someone gives you suggestions.

After all, laymen can understand icons but not code, can they?

It was Flash and actionScript ruled the front end, and the JS community was not active at all. Rachel did not get much help JS

However, when she combined the animation with CSS to make something like an animated music video, the CSS community was a sensation!

Big guy, come to Hawaii to share CSS for us! ! !

Although speaking does not have much income, it can increase influence and get to know more people in the industry. Taking this as an opportunity, Rachel launched an online animation course ( https://courses.rachelnabors.com/ )

She also wrote an animation-related book. Similar to lectures, writing books does not make money, but for those without a bachelor's degree, this is a resounding business card.

CSS a certain popularity in the Rachel began to write documents related to API MDN (a little income, but not much).

Generally speaking, one must have a bachelor's degree in computer science to enter a big factory, and Rachel as W3C invited expert of 0613749ce287dc, often needs to communicate with big factory developers. At this time she realized:

With these skills I have mastered, I can enter a big factory

After learning that Dachang’s starting salary is three times higher than her salary and the scope of Dachang’s health insurance reimbursement, she strengthened her idea: I want to join Dachang!

React core member

In the end, Rachel got the facebook of offer and started to ReactNative team.

You read that right, there is no mobile terminal development experience, and even React is not used much. The main programming work is animation-related Rachel and ReactNative team.

Thanks to her previous course teaching experience, lecture experience, and document writing experience, Rachel on the ReactNative team to engage in community research, new document writing, and design interaction Demo related work.

The React team has Core, Relay, and Native teams

Summarize

Even with such a result, Rachel is still brooding about the salary of the first job:

"If I go to university, someone will tell me: Rachel, you like games and code, you can develop as a computer scientist. The money you make in a technology company for a year will be the same as you (not going to university). The money is the same. But no one told me this."

Although many detours have been taken, Rachel 's many experiences are worth learning from.

Some people say: I am very strong, but I don't have a high degree of education, and I don't know how to face a big factory.

Rachel 's experience said: You can become a leader in a narrow field and increase your influence. This will be a stepping stone to a harder than academic qualification.

Some people say: I am very strong, but I don't have a high degree of education, and I can't pass the screening of my resume.

Rachel 's experience said: While increasing the visibility, you will get to know many big factory peers. Through their introduction, it is easier to enter a big factory than to submit a resume.

Some people say: I am very strong, but what I know is not the skills that big companies need.

Rachel 's experience said: big factories do not only need to be business programmers. The more well-known big factories, the stronger the demand for diversified talents.

I wonder if the experience of this two-dimensional girl inspires you? Looking forward to your comments

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