# How did you get in IT? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 10, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/how-did-you-get-in-it/20266 "2022-07-10T10:41:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![J\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/j_s/32/2531_2.png) [@J\_S](https://community.rapyd.net/u/J_S)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/how-did-you-get-in-it/20266/1 "2022-07-10T10:41:27Z")
Actually ways of live can be very different- so can be the ways fo find in this branch or to your job. I worked in some restaurants for more than 8 years- and then I just overthought my life and made a cut with the past. I tried freecodecamp and tutorials and with each exercise I became more and more sure: THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO - even when I am from a completely other branch =D Tell your story- it could encourage others =) ---
**Author:** ![MarkoSHX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/markoshx/32/8852_2.png) [@MarkoSHX](https://community.rapyd.net/u/MarkoSHX)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/how-did-you-get-in-it/20266/2 "2022-07-11T23:16:55Z")
I always liked tech and science probably because of my father. I wrote my first program when I was around 13(?) years old and I program ever since. I started on some small Slovak website teaching programming in C++. A few years forward and now I work as a programmer 😄. I also can’t wait to study this and become more proficient. ---
**Author:** ![drew.harris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/drew.harris/32/1259_2.png) [@drew.harris](https://community.rapyd.net/u/drew.harris)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/how-did-you-get-in-it/20266/3 "2022-07-11T23:40:18Z")
My way was by accident. I was a designer, and started working for a company and was working with some developers and we all became good friends. When we had a moment or even over drinking beers I would help them with the frontend (mainly the UI and UX plus the HTML/CSS/ light JS) and they would explain to be all about helpers and OOP and I was soon making helpers from my designs so they could then implement in their C projects. It was a lot of fun learning from each other and growing - the beers were nice too. So I wanted to be a developer one day and one day became one from these guys. ---
**Author:** ![Svagi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/svagi/32/8524_2.png) [@Svagi](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Svagi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/how-did-you-get-in-it/20266/4 "2022-07-12T09:20:56Z")
Since I was young I was always enthusiast in games. I loved that escape from reality when you have bad day, when you are tired or sad. For me games always cheered me up. Because of that, I always knew I want to be some sort of IT developer. To make some games and cheer someone up. So at around 15 is when I started for the first time. I started doing light python and searching game engines. But it was really really light and it didn’t took me anywhere (only teached me logic etc.). Everything changed when a local IT comapny came to our school and wanted to have interview with students that want a job. I landed it and that’s how I officially started one year ago as a software developer in a company where I also met my collegue @MarkoSHX with whom I started business now. Check also his start! > [@MarkoSHX](#): > > I always liked tech and science probably because of my father. I wrote my first program when I was around 13(?) years old and I program ever since. I started on some small Slovak website teaching programming in C++. A few years forward and now I work as a programmer 😄. I also can’t wait to study this and become more proficient.