{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Scrimba Podcast","title":"How to Find Your People and the Work You Find Exciting, with Scrimba Student Anna","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/b68637c6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2248,"description":"🎙 About the episode\nMeet Anna Ha 🇵🇱 🇰🇷! Anna was born in Poland, where she majored in English and minored in Chinese. She then moved to South Korea and set off to learn Korean and coding at the same time! Today, she works at a startup that creates tools for learning Korean. Perfect match!\nIn this episode, you'll discover if coding is a language. Anna also shares her learning strategy, how she discovered Scrimba, what amazing projects she worked on via Chingu, how she kept herself motivated, and how finding a community helped her stay on track. You'll also discover what's the key to both landing a job and looking forward to going to work every day!\n🔗 Connect with Anna\n👩‍💼 LinkedIn\n🌐 Website\n👩‍🚀 GitHub\n🐦 X\n🤖 annannanna on the Scrimba Discord\n🔗 Timestamps\nHow Anna discovered coding when she had a blog as a teenager but ended up studying languages (01:14)\nAnna started learning to code after moving from Poland to South Korea! (03:00)\nAnna always wanted to live somewhere else at least for a year (05:16)\nHow Anna learned to code (06:02)\nWhat to do if you think that coding just isn't for you (08:39)\nCommunity break (11:46)\nFocus on one step at a time (14:41)\nHow Anna juggled different learning resources (15:28)\nHow Chingu helped Anna get relevant coding experience (18:02)\nHow Anna landed her first tech role (22:01)\nAnna's interview process and what was most important (24:19)\nAnna's current company: Learn Korean in Koren (25:19)\nYour background is important, and so is your attitude (26:58)\nQuick-fire questions! K-pop, Flutter, and Scrimba (30:41)\nHow Anna found out she was getting an offer (31:45)\nThe importance of community and support (34:53)\nAdvice to younger Anna (35:33)\n⭐️ Leave a Review\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a 5-star review here and tell us who you want to see on the next podcast.\nYou can also Tweet Alex from Scrimba at @bookercodes and tell them what lessons you learned from the episode so that he can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 Or...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3qNz-AxOjZ6Oiowf_zRLRsZeOxv5p7FYbB0-kA5vS6A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE1Njg5LzE3MDE4/MDIzOTYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}