My journey from registered nurse to a software developer with Bubble.io

I’ve always had a passion for solving problems and technology.

I started my career in Nursing, and after 12 years, moved into a role in Data Analytics and Engineering in healthcare for the next 5 years.

I always quietly wanted to work in tech as a software developer, and eventually start my own tech business.

But life, mortgage, my job, kids and generally being a grown-up got in the way!

I didn’t think a transition would be easy or even possible.

In 2020, I was able to take Long Service Leave.

I found Bubble in 2020, during a startup accelerator program Founder Institue (Sydney Spring Cohort).

I signed up for a Bubble Bootcamp. It cost $800 USD. After I signed up, I seriously thought “What have I done?”

I even looked up trying to back out of the course. Luckily they had “no refunds” so I persisted!

During the boot camp, I learned a lot from Mariel my instructor. I did extra 1:1 sessions to answer all my questions.

During one mentoring session, she said “You know, you could teach this!”. And she made an intro to the people at Bubble.

5 months later… I left my job, started teaching for Bubble, and started Momentum, bootstrapped from our savings and funded by revenue.

I started with $500, $1,000, and $2000 consulting gigs. Whatever I could to get experience, I took it. I quickly moved to higher-paying jobs when I had some track record.

In the first 7 months of operating, we bought in $120,000, 1.5x my previous annual income revenue. I added 4 team members.

Opportunities kept coming. My team and I built over 40 apps in 2 years. Small ones. Big ones.

We grew Momentum to over 20 full-time team members.

Transacted over $2mil revenue in 2.5 years.

Now we focus on jobs over $100,000.

We are in demand as one of the leading Bubble development agencies globally.

I’m confident that whatever path you choose (to become a dev, to run a business, to build your own app), learning Bubble is a way to:

• Open your world to massive opportunity.
• Increase your earning capacity.
• Do work that is satisfying and meaningful.

After teaching both Bubble Bootcamps and Bubble’s Immerse program, we’ve developed our Momentum Academy course that teaches you how to make the journey I made, minus a lot of the mistakes along the way!

For more information, check out Momentum Academy.

Written By Will Ericksson

Managing Director of MomentumGroup.tech, Founder of Momentum Academy, and former Bubble Bootcamp/Bubble Immerse Instructor, created over 40+ apps with Bubble.io.