Alex Curtis-Slep - Enriching Your Life as a Developer

The Virtual Coffee Podcast

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Alex Curtis-Slep, long time member and volunteer and self-taught developer, about documenting the small wins, falling in love with the process, and aligning your goals to maintain a healthy life while job searching and during your tech career.

About Alex
Alex Curtis-Slep is a self taught software developer. After getting his initial tastes of HTML and CSS in the early 2000’s on his basketball blog, Alex jumped into coding in early 2019. He heard about a course Madison Kanna created on roadmapping to become a developer and took the plunge. Following a few years of learning, creating, contributing to open source, and much more, Alex landed his first job in tech at Paypixl. When he’s not coding and hyping up his developer friends, he loves everything basketball, tropical fruit, vegan, travel, family, friend, and foreign language related!

• alexcurtisslep.com
• @AlexVCS on GitHub
• @AlexCurtisSlep on Twitter
• @alexcurtisslep on LinkedIn

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Chapter

1. Alex Curtis-Slep - Enriching Your Life as a Developer (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to VC Alex (00:00:04)

3. Todays Question: Road Trip or Fly (00:02:32)

4. Alex's Developer Story (00:05:37)

5. Madison Kanna's Course (00:07:59)

6. Good Balance (00:10:56)

7. Staying Positive During the Interviewing (00:21:29)

8. Taking Care of Yourslef (00:26:47)

9. Finding Your Why (00:30:42)

10. Adjusting to New Careers (00:37:39)

11. Getting Outside (00:39:20)

12. Turn Work Off (00:43:28)

13. One Word to Describe Yourself (00:48:12)