How social media helped my career as a software engineer

In this post, I’m going to discuss what it means to work in public, what are the positives from working in public, how it actually has helped me and why I think you should use Social Media if you come from a non-traditional background.

What does it mean to actually work in public?

Working in public means sharing what you’re working on with other people. That could be a blog, an Instagram account, YouTube, or other social media. It doesn’t matter how you’re sharing, just that you share with other people besides yourself. Working in public is not keeping your work siloed in private GitHub repos or even in public ones if you don’t link to it anywhere. You have to be sharing your progress or what you’re working on in some way, shape, or form.

Where do I share?

I share my work on Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, and this website. I chose platforms that I was interested in creating content for so that I would be more inclined to post. Going live on Twitch and making a video on YouTube are a lot easier for me to discuss what I’m working on for a few reasons:

• It’s easy to turn on a camera