I’m past this level…
I’ve been learning to code since November 2020; it was my pandemic skill and I’m so proud of it… even if it was technically post pandemic and I was practically dragged into it, still I did it.
Over the course of time, I’ve learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript, BootStrap, Jquery, Angular, UI/UX, React, C++, C#, Java and Linux. Impressive right? Ahem, just because I know how to print “Hello World” to console and concatenate two strings doesn’t mean I know it; I’ve learned it, doesn’t mean I know it. But you see those first 2; HTML, CSS, I can beat my chest anywhere that “Ah! What is it? Their daddy’s daddies!” At least I thought I could until I had an actual job to do.
Now I had been practicing on my own for a whileeeee… I’ve done my own projects, and made my own stuff, but I’ve never really gotten using a frame work down neither have I been able to edit or work well with someone else’s code; two of which are the most important skills any front end dev ought to have…
So any way, I got a job. I was recommend by someone who had so much faith in me, and was taken in on the basis of said faith… And now I have to prove my self… And I was given the opportunity to… And I’m messing up… HTML is messing me up.
It’s a simple project; revamp a web page. It was made with a template in PHP, however I’m only to work on the HTML. Note: This page is as static as modern day requirements would allow; like, minimal responsiveness, single page application… All the points on the nav bar link to various sections on the webpage… I’m just to edit some content and change the placement of a few things. So there’s no reason for it to be hard right? Wrongggg!
Gosh! I couldn’t have been so wrong… I’ve been on this for about 3 days now! Either the content I’m including isn’t reflecting on the page or the bootstrap classes are fucking shit up or one video content format isn’t supported. Even finding the content is a struggle in itself… I’m tired. I’m trying to prove myself to be serious and capable hence worthy, but here I am fumbling with simple HTM freaking L.
To crown it all, I fell sick. Now I have to take a sick day and am not further attempting to prove my worthiness.
I feel like a bum.
Moral of the story: Don’t underestimate anything. Nothing is too small to humble you. Also don’t rate yourself until you’ve had real work to do as that’ll only lead to an over confidence induced disaster…
PS: YouTube code-alongs don’t count.
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The Almost Tech Sis 