Like many my age, I was first introduced to writing code in the early days of MySpace. There was nothing like the satisfaction of figuring out how to get hot pink cascading sparkles or black and chartreuse vertical stripes while my favorite Fall Out Boy or Fugazi song blared in the background. I spent a good amount of time prowling the internet for new tips and tricks to deck out my page. When I graduated from high school and joined a band, I continued to learn as much as I could to trick out my bands website and create our internet presence. It was becoming a really solid past time.
When I decided to go to college though, I chose to follow other passions and studied Journalism and the Humanities. I built a colorful career for myself, there was no article I wouldn't write, no gig too strange, no tour too long. However for the past while now, I have been looking for something a little more secure, something that is challenging in a different way, something that doesn't require leaving home for months at a time. I couldn't really put my finger on it.
While visiting my native waters of California last fall, I found myself at one of my old haunts with an even older friend. She recently had some successes at her job as a Software Engineer and I spent a lot of time asking her questions, getting her insights, learning about her job. She encouraged me to look into it, especially since I had previously shown interest in coding, I was uncertain about it at first, but after spending a few months on the fence about it, I decided to finally take the leap.
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