![]() Working three days a week in a fast-paced editorial office, writing about anything business, finance, tech or sustainability-related.Īt the same time, I’d heard so much about life as a freelancer while travelling that I thought I’d try it out. ![]() So I started writing and editing part-time for an online business magazine. And trial-and-error it was.įirst, I thought I’d give writing a serious shot. So when I got back home, I decided to try out a few things that I thought might both make me happy and at the same time provide for some sort of decent living. The only reasonable thing to do seemed like the classic trial-and-error method. The second thing was that backpacking and surfing, although being great and all, wouldn’t help me find that “calling” I was looking for. I just couldn’t see any future scenario where that would make me happy. The first thing was that I simply couldn’t keep pursuing a finance career. But it actually helped me figure out a few things. I’d graduated from business school, gotten an attractive investment banking job, and then quit that same job just a few months in after realizing I hated everything about it.Ĭompletely lost and quite cliché, I went solo traveling for a few months to “find myself”. Part 1: Embracing the quarter-life crisisĪbout three years ago, I was in the middle of a raging quarter-life crisis. And yet I managed to land my dream offer, and can today for the first time in my life say that I love my job. I had no relevant work experience, no tech degree, and not even a year of active coding experience. Six months ago, I got my first developer job as full stack web developer for a startup. By Charlie Jeppsson How I landed a full stack developer job without a tech degree or work experience
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