Author here: had some positive feedback on the last one so wanted to keep sharing my experience of breaking into tech without a degree or related experience. As always reach out if you have any questions about switching into tech, happy to help.
Your stories show a less traditional but just as valid approach, and I think it's an important thing to show people that you can get into tech and still make a decent living even if you're not one of the stereotypical HN FAANG crowd. The whole world isn't Silicon Valley, in spite of what you often see here.
A huge break for the company owner! You were clearly able to ship things, and he was able to just hire you, instead of having to go through a long and painful process with the recruiters.
> Still didn’t really know what I was doing though.
I'm pretty sure no one knows what they're doing...
Almost all my changes were because either because of change in management or job getting boring. But networking and knowing people played a huge part in ever move.