---
title: "How I got my 1st job as a developer by making simple projects seem big"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-got-my-1st-job-as-a-developer-by-making-simple-projects-seem-big-xvyw-0tbi
source_url: https://yuridevat.hashnode.dev/how-i-got-my-first-job-as-a-developer
type: article
source: "Hashnode"
published: 2022-08-21T16:46:54.147Z
updated: 2022-08-21T16:46:53.477Z
tags: ["javascript", "github", "html", "interview", "ux", "accessibility", "github-pages"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 108
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://yuridevat.hashnode.dev/how-i-got-my-first-job-as-a-developer>

## 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

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