My 2019 in DEV Community - Top 500 Authors and Everything about ME
Tags: webdev, career, beginners
Published: 2019-12-11 09:25:19

2019 is coming to its end, and it was really good. I learned a lot of things this year and did a lot of adventures, landed my first job in an amazing startup, earn some money by writing articles(I didn't think of that before) and created an online presence.

### Who am I?
I'm Aashir Aamir Khan, you can call me [@justaashir](twitter.com/@justaashir). I'm a teenager, started learning almost 2 years back on my own. I didn't know anything about web development before, I used the computer only for games before(as most of the kids!) but got curious about learning something about computers and earning something through it. As a self-learner,
 I didn't know much about anything. I was moving to different languages every day if someone said to me that "Learn MS Excel" and I started learning Excel. one other day someone said
"Learn Photoshop", I started learning Photoshop and I was just mingling around for six months then I did a lot of research and finally decided to finally pivot to Front End Web Development and this decision was great. I almost read 1000 articles on "How to learn web development"(I still read them, just to check out!). I learned HTML, CSS and lots of theoretical things('Tutorial Rut').

I started learning Javascript and learned it almost for 2 months(not fully paying attention to it) but my kiddy mind did a little mistake, I was thinking of earning less than earning, so I dropped up Javascript by saying to mind that "It's complicated". I moved into Freelancing Market(My Biggest Mistake) with just HTML, CSS. I started selling my skills just for 5$(What?) on [Fiverr](fiverr.com), ended up with nothing,
 then [Peopleperhour](peopleperhour.com) and then at last [fivesquid](fivesquid.com) and wasted almost 4 months of my life.
I was too bad with my skills, too but you know(Over Confidence!) but all of this experience helped me a lot now, and now I know a lot about Market that what's up and down and what people are paying money for(Wordpress Ssh!). I left all of this and came up with a decision that I'm not going to go to freelance market places again. 

I started learning Javascript and a lot of things again and tried to practice as much as possible(My Javascript Learning Method Coming Soon!) then JSX and JAMStack and now from "Over-Confidence" to "Imposter Syndrome".

#### I have to come Online and tell the community that I belong to it
I realize that it's time to make an online presence, I used Facebook(Shit!) for Online Presence in the developer community. almost 4 months ago, I created a twitter and learned to use it, and it was great.

#### I started blogging just for fun, 
I started my blogging, just for fun. I found DEV on twitter and it was a  turning point for me.[you can read about it here](https://dev.to/justaashir/dev-is-amazing-for-me-it-changed-my-entire-career-1a74),
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### My Accomplishments because of blogging
 - I'm part of an amazing Startup now
 - Companies are contacting me to market their products by writing for them.
 - Got 8000+ followers on DEV in just 3 months, 110,000+ views and 1700+ 
   reactions
 - One of the Top 500 Authors of DEV 
 - I know where I'm going


### Top 500 Authors
I read about it when @EmmaWedekind posted it :
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Then I decided that my next year's goal will be getting into the Top 500 Authors list, and I will do some real hard work for it and when I was going to sleep at night, I opened up my Gmail and found out that I'm already one of the Top 500 Authors. I was really shocked by this, Thanks DEV.


Follow me on Twitter: (@justaashir)[twitter.com/justaashir]
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