What can happen in 2 years?
Tags: career
Published: 2021-05-28 17:06:02

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title: What can happen in 2 years?
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description: A follow up to my adventures in coding since my disappearance from Dev.to 
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**I wrote for awhile on Dev.to 2 years ago.**

## What happened? ##

The short story is depression, but you're not my therapist, so let's not get deep into that. My second to last post on this site was a feeling of regret for not working hard enough.

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I was upset at myself for playing video games instead of working on coding. But really, as Kasey Speakman discussed with me, it seems I was frustrated because I wasn't doing the right thing. I wasn't doing something fulfilling. During the times that I was working on projects as a newbie, it was especially rewarding because I was making little things move on the page and that made me happy!

I became unhappy because I could no longer find work that would challenge me. I was already feeling that, so that's why I had another article asking for advice of trying to get into the industry.

Pretty much after that post, I fell hard into that aforementioned depression and mental illness. After some hard work and consideration *(and weirdly becoming much better and stable during the pandemic)* in September of 2020 I just searched for "programming scholarships for women". I knew I **needed** guidance, but there was no way I could swing spending more money on school since I already went to fancy pants elite art college.

I happened upon a place called Kenzie Academy. It had a good payment plan *(all on their website)*. I knew it was made for beginners and I had already surpassed that, but I wanted to solidify my web development experience and be able to create a web site from top to bottom and make connections to professionals in the industry.

Currently I have finished my Front-End Certificate *(6 months)*. It was tough at times, but I learned a lot about React, MongoDB, and even Websocket for chat apps! I am now about a month into Quarter 3 where we learn Python for Backend.

## I hate it. ##

So once again, I have been turning to video games and streaming as distractions.

*But this time it feels different.*

I've been using an app called [Mix It Up](https://mixitupapp.com/) to create alerts because I knew I could use images and have them more customized them Streamlabs that 99% of people use. What I didn't know is that you can *almost* have full control of the HTML/CSS of every single event that takes place.

## I love it. ##

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Sadly you can not use javascript with it **yet**, but I'm learning lots of CSS tricks. I've been having so much fun doing this. When I make these silly little things, I think **"This is kinda what I want to do"**. It's the exact same thing I liked when I was a beginner.

> I was making little things move on the page and that made me happy!

It's the exact reason I love making games too. I'm a very visual person. It seems that manipulating data on the backend is just not what excites me. So now I have the make the decision of what I want to do, 6 months earlier then anticipated. I have been advised to stay in school, but look for jobs starting *yesterday*. 

Which jobs? I'm not sure. Front-End Development is the easiest to pin down, but I was also told about UI/UX and CSS Animation Specialist. I'm not perfect yet, but I have a silly little digital certificate to my name now.

**So how has Dev.to changed in 2 years?** What kind of articles are most popular now? Where has your coding journey went since 2019?