I Landed 4 Jobs and Earned $25K+ with Technical Writing
As a final-year university student preparing to enter the industry, I knew I had to differentiate myself from other candidates in a competitive job market. That's when the idea struck me: what if I combined two activities I enjoy, programming and writing?
Combining programming and writing would bring three significant benefits. First of all, publishing my code online would help me consolidate the information in my brain. They say that "to teach is to learn twice". Secondly, others can find my code and hopefully learn something from it (or give me feedback to improve my skills). Lastly, it would showcase my thinking process and soft skills, such as communication skills, to prospective employers.
With this goal and benefits in mind, I began my journey into technical writing by launching this website catalins.tech. The image from the Internet Archive shows the very first posts that I published.
As an aside, the excerpt from the bottom of my blog validates the things I've been saying about my passion for coding and writing:
