Episode 10: Career Changes and Coding Bootcamps, with Chris Hunter

• Michael keeps up with his "listen to 100 albums in a year" resolution.
• Mark has a weights rack of shame.
• Chris fails dry Jan by a matter of days.
• There's a 1% chance we'll all be mush anyway.

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Chris Hunter

Working in government on a project with other consultancies also contributing. Are they in competition?
Lovely personal github readme

Quickfire Questions

1. Hurling, GAA, or other?
2. Most used terminal command at the moment?
3. Dev or Ops, pick one for the rest of you life.
4. Dream Industry to work in?
5. Least enjoyable technologies you've worked with?
6. Michael's weirdest habbit?
7. How scared are you AI will take your job?
8. What's your "getting down to write code" music?

Breaking Prod

Clean sheet, but has seen a team unable to deploy to prod for over a month!

Big Topics Changing Careers

You’ve had a big career change.

• What made you decide you wanted to change careers?
• Were you frustrated with the day-to-day job, or environment? Lack of variation? Lack of opportunities?
• Presumably you were on at least alright money, was it worrying taking a pay cut?
• Did you have to build a financial buffer to finance the change?
• Do you wish you had done it sooner? Or timed it right?
• How did you go about skilling up?

Coding Bootcamp, at Le Wagon

• All in person, or online?
• What sort of topics did you cover?
• Anything you loved or hated? You had a few months gap after the coding bootcamp, before your job.
• Was that nerve wracking? To think you’d spent a few months of time/money, and not yet got a job?
• Were you already warmed up to the idea that finding work might just take a while?
• Did you get guidance on how to go about getting a job?
• Has the content you learned then all been useful? Any cruft?
• How is the pay now, relative to your previous role?
• Was it a great investment?
• Any advice for anyone considering a career change into tech?

News

1. AI sensors used in homes of vulnerable people
2. Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash
3. EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App
4. Irish AI minister has never used ChatGPT
5. Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices
6. Abandoned S3 buckets and the potential to do harm on a SolarWinds+ scale
7. Elon Musk lies about gaming ability

Recommendations Music

• The Long Forever, Elephant Tree & Lowrider
• Studio Ghibli, Anime Music

Podcast

• Search Engine: The New Zuckerberg

Movies

• Dune 2
• The Brutalist

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Special Guest: Chris Hunter.