Life after treehouse a real story - Let share our stories

Great story Joe! I've got a bachelor in IT and I'm on Treehouse because I want to become a web developer. Nice to hear it worked out well for you, let's the rest of us know there's hope! :)

Thanks for sharing Joe. I am just two months in treehouse and I am already coding a website for a friend, and after posting a screen grab of its home page on Facebook other friends are already lining up for freebies. I guess I will do four or five more before I start rolling out invoices. Before Treehouse I did two months with Codecademy and that's what drove me here as I discovered I loved coding. I am hoping I will get employment later when my portfolio is fat and have the experience, and your story has inspired me!

Great story Joe, and i love your idea with this thread - following it now to get me some motivation when i need it!

Thanks for sharing. This gives me hope. Can you tell us a little about the kind of projects you worked on for your portfolio?

Thanks for putting up this discussion! I'll add my 2 cents even though I haven't made any money with treehouse knowledge yet. I've been learning on treehouse for about 6 months total. I started with Html and CSS but moved to python because I really wanted to be an independent software vendor right from the start. You can design your own graphic user interface and have fun developing your own original program ideas. I recently wrote a little desktop program that is distributable as an exe. I had to learn the exe part on other websites but it is just basically a proof of what I now know I can do to make money in the future. So I'd say 6 months of 2 hours a day learning and coding is more than enough time to learn how to start developing desktop programs to sell for money. Wish me luck that I find a good idea and execute it well. I'd love to hear more of other people's stories as it's very encouraging and a good look at the realities of where treehouse can take you. I'll post updates too. Thanks

You know this is in archive right? You can't lie people.

Hi Aurelian Spodarec, what do you mean?

Ah, Joe is saying he's an expert, senior developer, doing this for many many many years, when in fact he just changed the post description to "Good old post".

Why did he do that? He did that only when I pointed it out.

Saying he was trolling, but had a conversation with people about it. Asked beginner questions on what is flexbox, what is difference between == and !== and such.

He called me out in his two youtube vidoes, but now he deleted them. I just exposed him.

You might thing, who cares, but I do. Sure, he might do something, but it's 'fake'. No I don't mean he doesn't know how to code, or whatever, but fake in the terms of lie. Painting fake picture. Senior dev, earning 115k, 85k, 95k, sure. Living with his mom? As a senior? Yeah.

I mean... he's deleting stuff. Said he show some proof, send him and email but he keep quite.

There will be people in future that will expose him and make a video. I'm just helping him out now actually :) credibility is important.

If I want to buy something, if he is selling me something, but I google stuff and find out, and see that he is lying to me. That's the issue. He lied to me and other people.

I'm not picking on him, it's just the fact he tried to sell me soemething in one of his youtube video, as well as other people, on his courses.

Credibility man.

If you google him and look up for the name, man.

It triggers me.

But I don't care now. Someone else will do the job in future. I'm off doing my thingy now :)