Staying Motivated While You Search
Discover techniques to stay motivated while searching for your first coding job. Learn how to use social accountability, podcasts for inspiration, and structured time for algorithm practice, job searching, learning, and side projects to keep your momentum steady throughout the job hunt.
Use social pressure
Use social pressure to keep you motivated even when you lose motivation. Do a weekly standup with a small group of friends. Go around and say what you did that week, what results you’ve had, and what your plans are for the next week. Humans are social animals. Exploit your instinct to live up to what you said you would do by telling people you like what you will do. Bonus if they’re going through the same thing at the same time.
Listen to podcasts
Listening to podcast interviews of how people broke into tech can be very motivational. It helps you realize there are thousands of people going through what you are going through right now. The backlogs of CodeNewbie, FreeCodeCamp, and ...