So ever since a few days ago when my father’s house started leaking during a bad rain and both me and him exclaimed having enough, I decided to go back to powering through the FCC curriculum and finish out my last three projects. After I finish the five web development projects and pretty-up the design of them, I will have not only made five websites, but will have begun a web developer portfolio, and I want to make it stand out. However, after reading one topic on the subject, I kind of question if that will even be close to enough to begin working at least as a freelancer.
I kind of enjoy coding, but I don’t have a strong passion for web design. On top of that, I hear the field is saturated and competitive now. I’m okay with that, as I mostly just want to use web design as a way to make money so I can move someplace with more job opportunities in welding or programming, or even go back to trade school. I would love to just freelance online and travel, but I really need to buckle down somewhere and work on paying back my debts for five years or so before I can be truly free.
I get satisfaction out of web development, but I find it kind of…underwhelming. Now what I AM interested in is Javascript and what it can do with robotics, websites, and video games, and that’s what I plan to power through next after I get my web development certification. I just don’t know if the job market for that will be better or worse than web development, but at this point, I don’t care!
I mean I do, but I’m just riding on faith at this point. If it works, then I might have found the key to my success and future. A vehicle for moving through the world, and to both help my family and become independent of them. If it doesn’t work, well, at least I put forth an effort to improve myself and situation. And hey! If it’s Javascript I learn, my new skills could at least let me have more fun with programming drones and robots in real life, or in ComputerCraft, or COLOBOT or some other game. I could maybe help with game development somehow. Or maybe I could earn a STEM scholarship for next year.
What do you think?