About me 👩‍🎓

Front-end developer from São Paulo, Brazil

I looking for an opportunity to work as a Frontend Junior. I'm currently an ESL teacher studying at SheCodes to become a Fullstack in the future.

Hi, my name is Eliana I'm 34 years old. I was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. I lived abroad for 2 years. I have a degree in Social Communication. I studied Graphic Design too. I'm also a certified ESL Teacher. I like to learn new things in my free time. I'm a lifelong learner.
My hobbies are: taking photographs of places, writing on my journal, reading things online, drawing random stuff, cooking desserts with chocolate, gardening my roses, playing with my nephews, recording videos and posting online, studying languages, so on...

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My journey started... in 2004 when I was about to finish high school. Like everyone else, I had to choose my FUTURE. I have always had many different interests. I used to keep a journal. I used to do many crafts and collages. I liked reading magazines. I was really good at organizing my ideas in a paper with strong arguments. I used to make video clips when TikTok wasn't even imagined. I was also interested in other things, like animals, travel, theories, theater, internet and more. I liked many subjects: Portuguese, History, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Arts...

Anyway, I had some OPTIONS on my plate. Many people suggested that I should be a lawyer because I was very convincing. Others said that administration could be a better fit for me, that I should follow an entrepreneurial style. Someone told me to dream bigger (but I can not remember who said it), and that I should keep in mind my strongest desires.

During that time, I started QUESTIONING myself the following questions: Do I want to be rich? Do I want to be powerful? Do I want to innovate? Do I want people to remember me? Do I want to go places? And so on... I was trying to understand what I wanted from life. I started thinking so much that I almost decided that I should be a philosopher (no kidding - I'm an overthinker). Or maybe a psychologist (people still say I should do that!! - It's funny).

Well, I realized that somehow I was CONNECTED to the world. I enjoyed learning about other cultures and EXPLORING new things (in general). CURIOSITY has always been part of who I am. I decided that I wanted to see and experience many things in life. For that reason, I picked journalism. I thought that as a journalist I would be able to learn about many different things, visit places and meet all kinds of people. To some extent, it happened. Both my college and my career as a journalist had granted me part of that new view of stuff. My mind has EXPANDED in a way I cannot explicitly define.

However, after some time, I wasn't going anywhere. I felt stuck. At some point, I wasn't even learning anything new. I wasn't interviewing anyone. I wasn't even being creative. I was only copying and pasting texts. I felt like a fraud. I wasn't growing. I still don't know what happened there, but I wasn't happy with that situation and I wasn't even making good money. Everything I IMAGINED wasn't happening. My passion for writing professionally had gone away. But I still had photography as a hobby...

Then, I remembered how much I appreciated CREATIVITY and started drawing too. Finally, I decide to move on. That's when I decided to get a second degree in Graphic Design. Some people thought I was lost... but I was re-finding my purpose.

When I was 26 years old, I had the opportunity to become an Au Pair and live abroad. Of course I took that chance and went on my best life EXPERIENCE. There I met new people, improved my language skills, and learned about different lifestyles. I visited historical places that I've always wanted to see. I was also responsible for 3 kids (if you don't know anything about "Au Pair" - it's an exchange program - click here to learn).

After living in the United States for 2 years, I returned home. In 2016, I decided that I had to share my experience and incentivize other people to go after their dreams. I've had a sense of contributing or giving back to my community something that I had taken. I felt obliged to do volunteer work. I felt like I could be a role model in some aspects. I knew that education was powerful. I also knew that many people don't have access to KNOWLEDGE.

Teaching became my mission. That's something I will continue to do in my free time. I like the way how I can transmit my ideas, knowing that it will make an impact on somebody else's life. English is a LANGUAGE that became part of my life and I thought I was going to go places again in a near future. I was trying to figure out how to keep English in my life and how to go FURTHER at the same time. I'm a person that is always trying to do new things (as you can clearly see above), so I tried to apply for cabin crew jobs. I failed many times but now, since the pandemic, everything made sense. That wasn't for me.

In the meantime, I discovered IKIGAI and multipotentiality. I had finally understood my route. Life isn't linear to most people and that's fine. We make the road while we go... Most recently, I got in touch with many tech teaching tools. Along with that, I re-started designing my lessons on Canvas. I started posting on Instagram and TikTok. I created a YouTube channel. I stomped on the term T-pack (click to learn). Then, I started tracking my journey until here and questioning my next professional steps.

What do I want to learn next? Why? And how I am going to do that? Can I still be a role model and teach in the future? What's gonna change? Will I be able to use English? Will I be in touch with the world? Will I be challenged? That's my click. I have to enter the TECH world. That's what I am doing right now...

Where is it going to lead me? Help me find out! I don't wanna go alone this time.
Are you coming with me?