Software Developer Career - 50 steps to change your career

Create a focus statement - I help [people] to do [this] so they can have [that]

[people] = the specific people ou want to meet and associate with

[this] = it's what you do, what you are or want to be an expert at

[that] = it's what [people] want. What is that they want more?

Define the specific topic of your blog based on your focus statement

Choose a descriptive domain name

Create a list of 30-50 possible subjects for posts

Write and publish a post from one of those topics (get started!)

Decide now one day of the week that you will post, and add to your calendar

Choose a good name and create your account if you don't have one

Follow 30 “top” posters in your interest area (from your focus statement)

Your profile: the description is your focus statement. Add a picture and a banner.

Browse Twitter to locate content about the o topics you listed for your blog

Add your twitter to your blog and promote to everyone you meet

Create your GitHub account if you don’t have one http://github.com

Learn how it works: publish some code you already have

Learn forking: create a fork of an existing project

Learn Pull Requests: with a friend, submit and approve a PR

Git (learn to collaborate) http://www.git-scm.com

Jenkins (learn to automate) http://www.jenkins.io

Containers (Docker) (learn about infrastructure) https://www.docker.com

Issue Tracker (learn to organize your projects)

Object Oriented Programming (learn to program)

Create a Web Application (learn a complete stack)

Access the Database (learn to handle data)

Talk about your career with someone who is more experienced

List 3 tips that your mentor told you and you intend to follow (write it down!)

Read books about other developers and what they did http://ridingthecrest.com

Meet at least 3 other developers you don’t know (can be online)

Talk about your projects and hear about their projects

Find similarities and differences among the projects

Go to a meeting at a local Java Users Group

Join online events. We run several at Code4.Life https://www.code4.life

List at least 5 open source projects your are interested http://github.com

Find at least 3 small problems in 2 or 3 of those projects (bad documentation, small bugs, etc)

Try to solve one of these problems, what would take?

If you are satisfied, submit the solution to the project

Learn a little about what is a landing page and a lead magnet https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/285172

List some ideas and create a lead magnet

Create a landing page to distribute your lead magnet

Present about something you learned to your co-workers (at lunch?)

Prepare a Google hangout and invite a few friends to attend

Present a talk about something you know at a technical school or university

At an event or a User Group meeting, introduce yourself to an open source developer

Take a picture (maybe a selfie), tweet the picture and tag the person

Study something in their blog and ask a real question

Attend a Java User Group meeting and meet the JUG leader that is running it

Subscribe to the group and follow the leader on facebook/twitter

Send an email introducing yourself to the leader or the group

Send an email offering to help or asking how to create your own group