How You Can Get A Web3 Developer Job

The Only Resource You Need

Michael Macaulay
Level Up Coding
Published in
8 min readDec 9, 2021

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The population of California exploded in the 1800s. Why? It was a lucrative frontier.

It turned out there were lots of gold deposits. This inspired people around the world to drop their lives and move to the golden state.

Lots of people made lots of money.

Today we have a new lucrative frontier.

It’s called Web3.

This will be the next phase of the Internet. Powered by cryptocurrency and blockchains.

But instead of gold miners, the folks on the ground floor are programmers. And there’s never been more demand than right now.

As Web3 continues to explode in adoption, that demand is only going up.

The best part?

You can teach yourself these skills for free.

And as someone that did just that, I’m going to share everything I wish I knew before.

It’s a Struggle

I’m going to be perfectly honest with you. This will not be easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And it might take longer than you expect.

I was one month away from graduating college with a communications degree. I was applying for jobs left and right. Hoping to work in my field. But I couldn’t find one.

I asked one of my professors for advice. And he told me to become a barista. This was coming from the same guy who had been telling me a communications degree can get you anywhere. It was all bullshit.

That was the moment I knew I had to learn to code. But mind you this was in 2019. It’s taken me over a year to get my first job. And you need to brace yourself for that.

There’s lots of fluff stories from tech. People claiming they learned how to code in 3 months. Got a job at Facebook. And everything was easy.

But that’s not the case for most of us. After all, you’re teaching yourself a highly technical skill by yourself. It won’t be easy. And it won’t be fast.

Lots of people start this journey. And they give up before they get their first job. But the first job is the hardest part.

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