A Difficult Start 

Auan graduated with a liberal arts degree in sustainable development. His goal was to become independent and launch his career. 

He applied to various jobs but kept confronting a skills gap that prevented him from finding permanent employment. 

He found he had a knack for technology and two years of freelance translation and game development work followed, unpredictable income that never quite added up to stability. “I really felt successful when I graduated, but when I faced the real world and couldn’t find a job. It was very hard.”

The Breakthrough

A Generation post on Facebook changed his prospects. Generation Thailand’s Software Developer program offered a technical training that would bridge his skills gap in a way that could allow him to fully enter the world of technology. 

Generation turned out to be more than just training. He found a supportive community, in which learners banded together, completed projects, and supported each other, even sending one another job opportunities after graduation. 

“Generation taught me how to have a growth mindset,” Auan says. He began to see the opportunity in the challenges he faced. Even interview rejections became learning experiences instead of failures. 

Now a Full-Stack Developer at PyR, a company Generation connected him with, he has stable income, his own apartment, his own car, and a promotion to system analyst on the horizon.