I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin
I have no idea what I’m doing.
Generally speaking.
Because adulthood is WAY harder than advertised and a combination of circumstances and my own (sometimes mind-boggling in hindsight) decisions have conspired to force me to play this particular game on Hard.
Which is why I must be some kind of masochist to have taken up coding. Not because it’s hard (though it ain’t easy) but because, if there’s anything that would level up my already challenging situation, it would be the decision to teach myself front-end web development.
But here’s the thing: I love it. I really do. It turns out, after a B.A. in Literature and a career spanning Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Media, Education and eCommerce, the thing I most want to do now is to spend my time fighting to write and decipher code. And that’s not to say that I’ve never enjoyed my work before. I fell head-over-heels for at least one of the above fields and every single one of them blessed me with truly amazing experiences.
That said, I’m endlessly tickled by the fact that I — a woman who hasn’t really looked at a piece of code since a Junior High Computer Science class — am now spending my days mulling over coding challenges and listening to coding podcasts and then spending my nights learning as much as I can before collapsing in exhaustion and waking to do it all again. And all because of a nagging curiosity about what was really under the hood of the site on which she spends her days.
I might be a little obsessed.
Which is, in part, why I started this blog. I’m working my way through the #100DaysOfCode challenge (I’ve coded for 31 days straight so far, though I did 20+ prior to that before taking some time off for a bad virus) and it’s been a true whirlwind. As much as I know I have a LONG way to go, I’ve also learned a mind-blowing amount in this short space of time. When I look back and see how far I’ve come… *phew!*
So I’m kicking off this blog as a more detailed way of tracking my progress alongside my daily tweets. I don’t expect anyone to read it, but, on the off chance that someone stumbles across this here chronicle of one woman’s coding journey, I hope they (you) find at least a little encouragment in its pages. Because if I, a single, working mom, can figure this thing out little by little, you DEFINITELY can too.
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