A blog about software by Alexander Yaäkov Garber.

1,000 Pomodoros: First Gig Edition :D

Published on 09 Aug 2017 by Alexander Garber


Over the last seven months I have spent a thousand pomodoros (25-minute blocks), i.e. five hundred hours, in pursuit of a new career as a software developer.  The bulk of my time has been spent on the following:

  • Studying coding (40% => 200 hours), 
  • Writing code (40% => 200 hours)
  • Writing about this journey (10% => 50 hours), 
  • Networking and actively applying for jobs. (10% => 50 hours)
And now I am pleased to announce that I have been granted an internship at Gleam.io as a back-end junior software developer.


I am grateful to the team at Gleam for this opportunity to learn the ropes.  I am ever increasingly aware of how much there is for me to learn, but I will give it my best.

Wish me luck!


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