--- title: How I got my 1st job as a developer by making simple... description: Julia is a self-taught front-end developer in his thirties who switched career into tech after studying Japanese and musicology while working part-time at a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-got-my-1st-job-as-a-developer-by-making-simple-projects-seem-big-xvyw-0tbi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I got my 1st job as a developer by making simple projects seem big | daily.dev og:description: Julia is a self-taught front-end developer in his thirties who switched career into tech after studying Japanese and musicology while working part-time at a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-got-my-1st-job-as-a-developer-by-making-simple-projects-seem-big-xvyw-0tbi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XvYW-0TBi.png og:image:alt: How I got my 1st job as a developer by making simple projects seem big og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I got my 1st job as a developer by making simple projects seem big **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 12 min read · 108 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Julia is a self-taught front-end developer in his thirties who switched career into tech after studying Japanese and musicology while working part-time at a casino. She created a simple calculator using JavaScript using HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, hosted on GitHub pages to run the app. She later updated the code and created some mixins to familiarize herself with it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@amchriske** · 1 upvotes > Cool content, really inspired me. **@killshot13** · 0 upvotes > 👏👏👏 **@muathye** · 0 upvotes > scrimschaw **@devvsakib** · 0 upvotes > great --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#interview](https://daily.dev/tags/interview), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility), [#github-pages](https://daily.dev/tags/github-pages) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-got-my-1st-job-as-a-developer-by-making-simple-projects-seem-big-xvyw-0tbi) ```json 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