--- title: "How Jessica \"accidentally\" became a developer while living and working in Japan" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-jessica-accidentally-became-a-developer-while-living-and-working-in-japan-f5jkjzy6s source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6t5ev2Z9yk type: video:youtube source: "freeCodeCamp" published: 2026-05-31T13:02:19.264Z updated: 2026-05-31T13:02:54.997Z reading_time: 1 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: 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 Jessica "accidentally" became a developer while living and working in Japan **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jessica shares how she transitioned into software development while living in Japan, initially working as a teacher through a government program before moving into technical writing and eventually coding after noticing the salary difference between writers and programmers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship](https://daily.dev/posts/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship-bqkknipoj) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-jessica-accidentally-became-a-developer-while-living-and-working-in-japan-f5jkjzy6s)