Why I got into Software Engineering
The question: “why do you want to be a software engineer?” The answer? To be honest is still slightly unknown to me. I do know that I’ve always enjoyed the unknown, exploring, and learning. However this all can only happen in my world as long as there is some sort of constant in the background to go along with it. Adventures are only fun for me as long as there’s the solid comfort of a home base.

Growing up, I wasn’t ever a gamer, and my presence online still isn’t great. Technology, however, is now and always has been fascinating to me. It’s uncomfortable to not understand how things work. Until recently though, I fell too complacent in the hospitality industry as that was all I knew, and I was good at it. When COVID-19 happened I, along with many others, was forced to redirect my life. So I kept going back to my curiosity with software and technology. How does a robot vacuum your whole house? How does an app I use everyday to work for Instacart work? How does my GPS work, and how did we ever get around before? These, along with an endless amount of other questions, are why I decided to use this time being forced out of my current comfort zone to find another one. Technology is something that isn’t going away, and not only is it not going away, it’s probably never slowing down it’s growth.

I’ve always been a person of many ideas and dreams, but rarely follow through. So the thought of starting school again and changing my entire career path is something that both terrifies and excites me at the same time. I want to gain the knowledge of the fundamentals of software engineering and skills to forever learn more. I never realized how much I was settling because I was afraid of the unknown until now after the world basically stopped. The technology world never stopped though, and in seeing that, I decided there was nothing I wanted to do more than to understand what it takes to become a Software Engineer.

There are so many different routes a Software Engineer can take in their respective careers. With all those different possibilities, there is also always a home base with Slack and Github, which connect all Software Engineers alike. There’s always more to learn together as this industry is forever changing and evolving. The comfort of a home base at my computer and support system with fellow engineers combined with the large array of different career paths is exactly why I want to be a Software Engineer.
['Erin Cola']
['Covid Diaries', 'Software Engineering', 'Newtothis', 'Flatiron School', 'Future Technology']