Full Stack Software Developer
2020 - Present
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
~ John Romero
Having recently found this quote, it's been a relief to learn that
perhaps I haven't 'failed' every personality test I've ever taken;
where logic and creativity appear to be either/or options.
Instead, it's just taken me a while to get on the right path for
my inherent skillset.
Or rather, I've always been on the right
path, but now I've got to the really exciting bit.
There are so
many aspects of all the work I've undertaken in my life that I
have loved. But the most frustrating part has been my desire to do
the coding myself (creating dashboards in Qlikview, automated VBA
in Excel, website amendments...) combined with my slight
(self-taught) ineptitude.
This is what has drove me to enrol as a
student once more, with Code Institute.
My journey from qualified
teacher, to Psychology of Education student, then researcher, data
analyst and now Full Stack Software Developer has been
difficult at times , often confusing and has led to the odd
existential crisis(!). But it's all starting to come together...
Which leaves me: a newly qualified Full Stack Software
Developer, with valuable skills from each point of my journey, and
someone who is as creative as they are logical. Not one or the
other...
