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Greetings everyone, my name is Alarie Happiness Olaoluwa and I meant to have a short interview with. La classe Deutschku David, c'est tr��s. OK, so as a newbie trying to explore our path and take and with asking you a few questions. So my first question is can you tell me a bit of how you got into the tech space OK? My tech career started far back as in 2017. I, I basically, I'm a computer guy. You know, I, I'm this person that after he, after my mom keeps her phone, you know, I always go back to grand press in the middle of the night to play games and all that. This person, I used to go and press people's computer when you're asleep. So I'll be computer guy, right? So Fast forward to like 2019, my brother encouraged me to, you know, just connect to my passion for computer to something. So he said. Should then hit him and scissors of then so you know I learned it. I know started creating stores building buttons and it was interesting. And that's my passion for programming started and Fast forward Fast forward, God may have it. I actually chose electrolyte University, but I ended up studying software engineering. So that's what brought me to where I am today. Wow, that's amazing. Something that started as just an interesting computer is making you, is building it for who you are today now. That's right. That's nice. Nice. OK, My second question is that what misconceptions do you think that people have about stake now? A lot of persons are going into tech for the sake of the money there in and in and much as that is not entirely bad, it's it's quite misleading because. Take before you make money in tech, you must first prove or before you make good money in tech, you must first prove yourself to be someone that is valuable enough to hold that money. And before you get to that certain level of value, I think that you need to be passionate enough because before you transition yourself from that beginner stage to the expert level professionally start making good money, you must have been driven by passion because that can take a couple of years. Well, that might be lesser than that because of, you know, the event of intelligence these days. I would say that most persons going to take coolers of dissolution, they want to provide or the rule they want to act in tech. They just, you know, being these days limited Social Security or data science is paying these days limited data science and all that. You know, what really works for people that make good money is are people that you know. Going to take and have a solution they want to provide. So one of the misconceptions I feel most people have is tech is one of the easiest route to escape poverty and other No, that is actually correct in a sense, yes, but we don't rush into check with that perspective. You're rushing to check with OK, I'm going to take to be a you are your designer. I'm going to talk to be a front end designer so I can solve problems and make money while at it. Was amazing. So you're telling us now that we must have passion for taking as much as we want. Is that an opportunity to make money? Yes, yes, I'm saying that because you see your passion for tech will make you make your drive to becoming that expert, which is what's going to fuel your drive because as a matter of fact, your beginner level to stage where you start earning money. If you go so far, you understand you go so far. So it's not what maybe your passion for money. With that strong, but I would sincerely advise that for easy gliding to take you go for what I'm passionate about, right? So in the good times and the bad times because that you are well driven, you are certainly focused when the chips are down, you go the extra mile, right? Because you don't really, you're not only fixing your gaze on the money they're in, but you are driven by passion to get to that expert level where you start making cool cash. OK. Thank you very much. So my third question now is how do you decide which parts to focus on? Thank you. Such a broad space, I know you know that. So how do you decide which part you want to focus on? Okay, basically our advice like I gave an instance before you see. Check in itself is it's it's it's a universe on its own. Now let's take university for instance. You can just go to university and say I want to go to photo. You can't do that, right? It makes more sense when you say I want to go to photo to study mechanical engineering. I want to go to photo study electrical engineering, right. The same thing applies to if you want to go into tech, I would always suggest that you should find what you're passionate about, what you're gifted in doing and turning into tech or something you like writing. You can be a content writer, you can be a fintech content. But you can be a technical writer the other writing, you know, niches in tech. If you're someone that you like aesthetics, you can be a designer. You can be a front end developer is one that you like. Logic can be a back end developer. If someone that you like this whole hacking thing like you like the the thing that come hacking, you can go into hacking. You get so the tech space is broad. You don't just say you can't start text you. If you going like that, you will do a lot of things before arriving at what will give you money or what will you know will stand out for you. So my advice is if you want to go into tech. Channel your passion, your talents or what you find easier, what you know you can do with ease and turning into tech. If he's, if he's writing, if he's speaking, if he's logic, if he's you love expecting, love building stops challenging tech and going to that school and what to take orders. Three to four years will take you shorter time. OK. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. That was amazing. So my 4th question now is that if you are starting to take today, what would you have done differently? I would seek a mentor. My journey in tech, I learned JavaScript from 2019 to 2021. That should be like 3 years because it was JavaScript was a whole lot for me to take him. You know, going from HTML to JavaScript is a proper language unlike that are relatively markup and not entirely programming itself. So I found, I found it difficult. I I, I did a lot of things in JavaScript, but I did not still get it up until when I entered the university I think I made. Consuming I watching this video chess. Thank you so much Sammy and Sammy was one of the persons that groomed me in JavaScript. You know, I remember the one of the first things that Sammy and I beat us on 8 calculator something very simple. You put in your age and into minus the current year and give you something like this that I could not do it in JavaScript, right. So if I will do something differently, I will have mentors, you know, mentorship will will save you years. You know this is this is saying that. Experience matters, you know, but how you get the experience matters more So if you're going into tech and you're curious about it that you meant or you, the experience you have is going to be. More terrible than someone that has a mentor who is there to guide him as OK, learn this, OK, build this project, okay, builder product. So in a short term, in the short term, I'm going to take today as a newbie or first of all, look for a mentor. Wow. OK. Thank you very, very much for that. Very amazing answer. So my. Thought questions now will be that which areas of take now do you think is going to be relevant long term? One thing for store bought my list is data. Data is not going anywhere anytime soon. As a matter of fact, data is is getting the recognition it deserves the current dispensation. I would always advise anybody to go into data. From data I can say go into artificial intelligence, then I can suggest cyber security. After that I can suggest software development. OK. Thank you very much. So my last question, I will be what what do you wish you had known before entering this field? Uh, just one thing, just one thing. I've said it before, before tech is you got mad and you will not marry. You know, check, get rich next week's scheme. It's not it's not due diligence. You must prove your due diligence before you get paid good cash in tech, right. So I don't wanna take like I said, I didn't start the notion of I want to make money next week or next month. No, it's like all from passion. Passionate computer game My brother instructed me to channel my my my passion into something in tech and that's what stood out for me. But if I was to know something, if I was to say something that I wish I knew earlier is sex is not to get rich screen. You have to do due diligence before you know you get to positions where you get paid cool cash. OK. Thank you very, very much. I think that comes to the end of our short interview. I hope this answers you have given me. We'll be able to help me and the viewers that are going to be watching these videos that are just exploring their part and take. Thank you very much. You're right. Try that one.