Brian Gilham welcomes new mobile developers to the club and shares advice for getting a job in mobile development. He acknowledges the imposter syndrome many developers feel and encourages faking it until you make it. His five pieces of advice are to look around for opportunities, demonstrate passion through side projects, share work publicly, outwork the competition through hustle, and leverage personal connections rather than just networking. He believes mobile development will continue growing and hopes his story is inspiring.

1. BrianGilham
SeniorMobileDeveloper,TWG

2. Whohereisa
mobiledeveloper?

3. Everyhandshouldbeup
rightnow

4. Welcometotheclub

5. Craft

6. Thepath

7. Ugh.When?

8. Time

9. Time
Experience

10. Time
Experience
Understanding

11. Everythingwillbeokay

12. Impostersyndrome

13. […]apsychologicalphenomenon
inwhichpeopleareunableto
internalizetheir
accomplishments.

14. […]thosewiththesyndrome
remainconvincedthattheyare
fraudsanddonotdeservethe
successtheyhaveachieved.

15. Soundfamiliar?

16. Fakeit
untilyou
makeit

17. Makeit
untilyou
Makeit

19. Timeforachange

20. Printjournalism

21. Journalism

22. Threeyears

23. Ohcrap.

24. Ohcrap.Shit.

25. FUCKTHATSHIT

26. PAYTHEMNOMIND

27. Graduation

28. Apaycheque

29. Shipping

30. Movingonup

31. Schoolofhardknocks

32. 2+2=3

33. Yet,hereIstand

34. 10years

35. Youwilltoo

36. Gettingajob

37. Mobileain'tgoing
anywhere

38. Badnews

39. Fivebitsofadvice

40. 1.Lookaround

41. 2.demonstrateyour
passion

42. "So,doinganythingon
theside?"

43. Theprojectdoesn'tmatter

44. 3.Shareyourworkwith
theworld

45. "Qualitynaturallyrises
tothetop"

46. WRONG

47. www.yournamehere.com

48. 4.Oh,yeah.Hustleyour
faceoff.

49. "Theywenthome"

50. But…

51. Outworkyour
competition

52. 5.Sometimes,it'swho
youknow

53. Don't"network"

54. Peoplehirepeoplethey
know

55. </advice>

56. #Love

57. Power

58. Changinglives

59. WELCOMETOTHECLUB

60. FIN.

61. @bgilham
BRIAN@TWG.CA
TWG.CA