How can coding help you land pretty much any job?

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In recent years there has been a growing number of individuals and organizations trying to push governments to teach coding in schools, as well as trying to convince adults to invest some time into acquiring some coding skills, but why? To put it simply: coding means jobs, lots of jobs, including jobs that don’t even require coding. 

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Learning to code has lots of benefits. Aside from the obvious (like being able to build websites and web applications), coding skills can make you stand out when it comes to looking for career opportunities. EVEN for positions that don’t involve writing code on the day-to-day. Or at all! As Skillcrush says: Digital skills are job skills. And that’s the truth! Before diving into all the job possibilities that having coding skills open up for you, let me give you a quick example of how I used my new coding skills to get non-coding jobs. Most of the non-coding opportunities that came up because of my skills relate to writing or marketing. One example is my work for Josh Owens. Josh is a prominent figure in the Meteor.js community. (Meteor.js is an “open source platform for building web and mobile apps in pure JavaScript”). He hosts the Meteor podcast, teaches online courses about Meteor, and helps startups build Meteor applications. (Not to mention that, once upon a time, he was a Rails Core Contributor!)

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