Your Career Will Mean NOTHING Without This... - Interview With William Ray

I had the pleasure to sit down with William Ray and hear about his career journey so far.
It's not what you'd expect.
And that's what makes it so great to hear about -- because there are so many different avenues to getting into software engineering.
Will shares with us his struggles before finding success in healthcare and how that was something that eventually wasn't aligned with his passion. The result is that he needed to pivot and stumbling upon coding is what changed his life once again.
Thanks for the conversation, Will!
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- CZcams: ‪@thetechdad87‬
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[@DevLeader]

You can get in touch with William Ray:
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/williamraysoftwaredev/
- CZcams: www.youtube.com/@thetechdad87

[@thetechdad87]

I was so nervous but had so much fun during our conversation. Thank you for having me!!

[@LifeWithRilla]

You got this brother!

[@thetechdad87]

@@LifeWithRilla thank you

[@kenscode]

Your amazing brother 🙏 You did an amazing job in this interview

[@BigStupidTech]

I love collabs like this. I probably wouldn't have found this Dev Leader channel for months it wasn't for this video.

[@DevLeader]

Awesome ❤️💪 Glad you've made it and I hope that you find value in my content!
Thanks for stopping in 😁

[@CodingChild]

You have what you say. I believe both. Our words affect our mindset and our words bring about the manifestation. Good interview!

[@DevLeader]

Glad that you enjoyed!!

[@iPazooki]

Very insightful talk!
Thank you so much

[@DevLeader]

Glad that you enjoyed it!! 🙂

[@kenscode]

I met Will because we have a similar story. Will is an amazing person and an inspiration to a lot of people and I pray he is successful in this field. I've been blessed and was able to go to college but I know I am going to have a challenge overcoming explaining my past to employers when I graduate next year. Regardless changing your life after going through what we went through is such an amazing thing 🙏

[@DevLeader]

Thanks so much for sharing! 💪❤️ Every walk of life is different, and all that matters is we're making progress as we go forward with the time we have left.
I wish you nothing but success as you continue on and make progress in your career!