LIFE CHANGING ALC
FROM ENGINEERING COURSE TO AN ENGINEERED CAREER
Life doesn’t always give what you expect, it isn’t automatic that you will get whatever you want without showing at least some effort. Therefore accept what you have at hand and work on it while still aiming more.
My dream career ever since childhood was becoming an Engineer. As you all know how all children, so naïve get easily interested with the things they see and hear, they are always determined to get what they rightfully know is theirs. How I wish the fighting spirit of a child is there till old age!!!Anyway I couldn’t be writing this. Do you think I still retain the fighting spirit? I am a grown up now.
Back to the topic, I studied hard knowing the troubles back at home and wanting a promising future. Unfortunately, I missed with 1 point to attain the cluster of my desired dream course. Never ever want to know how it feels if you haven’t.!!Since I had my ego high and never wanted to be the laughing stock of our village by repeating (you can’t convince anyone you passed as long as you repeat).I half-heartedly decided to take computer science with the hope of becoming a software engineer at the future.
At first these seemed the worst choice I ever made in my life. One, I had never touched a computer let alone using it. Two, most of my classmates had something to show of and none did I hear that they were there by mistake. Just see that environment, this will just force you to be quiet about your dreams and join the multitude.
In my hustle of learning at least a new idea by the end of the day and wanting to know what is in this new field of mine, ’I believe no mistakes in this world’ is when I come across various designs and got interested in knowing the behind it. Just as an Engineer knowing the foundation before admiring the final product.I came across some online application of being an web specialist, thanks to Google, Udacity and Andela community. I enrolled, by luck got an opportunity to be taught using videos and practice,(A trait that keeps me till now) knowing there is a challenge at the end. This not only opened my mind, but also did it change the overall thought of being an engineer and gave me the thought of engineering my career.
From scratch I have come to learn lots of ideas ,making progressive applications and wonderful websites. Thanks to losing the one point(ha ha). Technology is the best field to venture in, am glad to invite you all in this career ,always ready to help.
I won’t say it is a walk in the park. You will have to get sleepless nights for a sake of a coma not placed right. Hope that doesn’t deter you.
I remember at some point when I had joined the google scholarship challenge ”Offered by ALC”.You are at the hostel, not that you are revising for exams because you just resumed for a new semester, your roommates are all over talking as nothing is disturbing them, which isn’t bad anyway. I had been trying to make my website work offline i.e. caching and nothing was working, this made me spend my sleep time working on it. You might get questions “Is it stones you are reading? that you got to trans-night.”
Fight for what you believe in, don’t give up.
Always take anything in your hands as your own duty, perhaps you are a blogger and you there sited reading this. Don’t stop reading. Be humble and assist.
THANKS TO ANDELA LEARNING COMMUNITY(ALC),UDACITY AND GOOGLE FOR THIS GOLDEN CHANCE.
