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iamphenomenal:
As always, I return all glory to God. Today marks four years I buried the addiction of pornography and masturbation, which had plagued my life for many years.

All my journey and challenges, as well as my past success stories are recorded here on Nairaland, on the great platform where I met fellow fighters facing the same struggle - Masturbation Quitting Challenge Thread
https://www.nairaland.com/5223408/masturbation-quitting-challenge-thread

Note: As I've always emphasized, I didn't replace this addiction with fornication (as many people propose as a solution). All through my recovery process till now I've never engaged in sex, as I'm not yet married. Glory to God!

This testimony is to encourage anyone struggling with the same (or any other addiction) that total victory is possible. Trust in God. Engage in accountability. Don't give up!

Till next year. God spare my life.

Long live Nairaland!

Brotherhood is truly proud of you and your achievements. Ride on for the future is bright!

chinasaekpere:
To be sincere, I don't think I would have anything differently, because I already knew that I had to learn programming concepts before going into frameworks and backend.
I am enjoying everything I do now in programming.

Thank you!

chinasaekpere:
I did IBM backend after meta frontend. I abandoned the IBM course because I was not getting what I wanted.
I had to learn nodejs from a 15 hours YouTube video I downloaded

Ok. Thanks. You gat persistence bro!

BTW, what has your experience been since your kickstarted a career as an IT professional? What could you have done differently in the past given what you now know about the Industry?
Kindly consider this a career advice to a brother from another mother.

PS: I sent you a pm just in case you wouldn't mind replying privately. Thanks bro!

chinasaekpere:
I took the frontend course meta and the backend course with IBM. IBM courses Dnt seem detials and well-structured enough, as against the experience I had with meta.

To land a job here, no one cares about your certification.

Sorry to bother you much, but did you combine the two(or more) courses within the said six months of intensive self-tutelage, or the backend came afterwards?

chinasaekpere:
meta course is better. Mine was totally free, but I heard it's not free anymore

I attempted taking the IBM Front End Course and was required to pay a discounted fee to be enrolled. I thought it was a glitch initially but now I can confirm it's real.

If you don't mind, what metrics support your verdict on meta being better compared to IBM?
Have you had a previous experience with any of the IBM courses?

Additionally, did you take any extra certification exam to land your job or you made do with the coursera professional certificate?

chinasaekpere:
meta frontend coursera course.

Although, you will still need some other resource but this will teach all the basics.

Hi Op!
I know it's been a while you posted this, but I just wanted to ask if you were required to make a discounted payment prior to being enrolled for this course. Also in your view, how would you compare this meta front end course to IBM front end course?

chinasaekpere:
I graduated from the University 12 years ago. Since then I have been jumping from one job to another with no progress in sight. I discovered that I have been stagnant for Years, so I decided to learn a skill.

I started by learning how to make footwear, I learnt that for a year but I later discovered that it's not what I want to do, although I can make every type of footwear even boots.
Last year I took an online course in frontend web development, for 6 months I studied for an average of more than10 hours daily learning from HTML and now React.js. I learnt figma, scss, CSS, Version control, jquery, bootstrap, Chakra UI and react.js, it was a tough one because I had to forfeit other means of making money. I got hungry so many times, I used my last card to buy data so I can keep studying and doing my projects.

Earlier this month, I finished by portfolio project, I had already worked on 4 projects using react, Jquery, Chakra UI and bootstrap. I designed coupled of web pages using figma.

Earlier this month, my girlfriend who's a data analyst sent me a link for a front-end developer role. In my mind, I didn't feel like I was ripe enough so I didn't apply. 2 days later, I decided to give it a try and so I applied. I was called to come for interview this Monday.

On getting there, the company was working on this revenue web app project they are doing to for a particular state government. I was asked to develop the UI of one of the pages using react, CSS and Tailwind. I have heard of Tailwind before but I have never used it.
I told the interviewer that I have never used tailwind and that I'm proficient using bootstrap. He replied that I should go through tailwind documentation and then use it to style the page on top of react.

So I started reading the documentation, I discovered that it's syntax is somehow similar to Chakra UI which I have used once in my project, the are the same concept of class utility. So I decided to start coding, getting snippets from the documentation and then applying my Chakra UI knowledge to work around it.

To cut the long story short, I coded from 9am in the morning and delivered the page by 5pm.

I was sent an appointment letter today. So my tech journey officially started. It's a junior role though but I'm glad I broke the ice.

The salary is what I have never earned in a month since I was born. 😊

Op, I tap into your testimony. I too will testify very soon.