Patience, Failure, and Learning

I’m very excited to announce that I’m starting a full-time coding program this month! I’ll be spending the next 8 months learning back end development, and I’m both excited and terrified.

After losing my job I went through a pretty rough time. I felt like I was having an existential crisis almost daily. I had no job, no direction, and no idea what to do next. I had already committed to and partly paid for a UX design program, which would have been an exciting career change, but because of coronavirus the program was cancelled.

I had gone through a lot to get to the point where I was committed to the UX program, so I thought I finally had everything figured out, but then it fell apart and I had no idea what to do instead.

I was in a constant search for my next career. I was considering everything from construction to candle making to cupboard making. I finally got to a point where I decided I had to commit to something in order to feel like I was getting somewhere. Anywhere!

I tried a few different things, but when I committed to coding a couple hours a day, I found myself enjoying it more that I expected. It was tough to get through the first part which was mostly reading and theory, but once I started coding and making things I really enjoyed it!

I will say that I’m pretty excited about what’s next. I know it’s going to be hard. Really hard! Coding in general is tough to pick up, but the program I’m doing has been explained by everyone that’s done it as either the hardest or one of the hardest things they’ve done in their lives. If that’s not intimidating then I don’t know what is!

Two of the things I’ve been working on in my life are being more patient and learning to fail more. This program will indeed be a way to work on both! From the limited coding I’ve done so far I’ve learned that I need to be patient with myself as I learn, and failure is basically a given every day, if not every hour. What better way to learn patience and failure than coding!

I’m probably not going to have a lot of free time over the next 8 months, but I’m excited to see where learning to code takes me. :)