Christine Cunniff

From dog walker to iOS developer in 1.5 years.

I first met Christine when I asked on Slack about people who changed careers into tech. She easily had the most compelling story with this one sentence: “in the last year and a half I went from walking dogs to working at Comcast as an iOS dev.”

Christine graciously let me come talk to her and find out what made her want to change careers into tech and exactly how she did it.

We talked about reasons to seek out a career in tech, different ways to learn, how to find a job that fits your life, how to deal with impostor syndrome… I found this to be a very helpful conversation.

Her #1 piece of advice if you’re considering changing careers into tech: make sure you really want to do this… see if it’s something you genuinely like doing. If you don’t, there’s always something else. If you do, dabble with the many free ways to learn to find something you like.

Topics Mentioned:

1. ROAR For Good
2. How to Reap the Benefits of Impostor’s Syndrome by Oz Chen
3. Hacking with Swift
4. Treehouse
5. Big Nerd Ranch
6. Tonic Design Co.
7. New York Code + Design Academy
8. Jira
9. What is QA
10. PHL Design