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Jenny Mikac

I'm only a semester away from having a two year human services degree. I volunteered for a crisis textline and it made me realize that I don't have it takes to be in this line of work. I've also been a stay-at-home mom for the past four years.

I thought about finishing out this bachelor's and get my BSW, maybe get my masters in Library Science. I felt overwhelmed thinking of all that schooling I'd still be stuck doing, and I just turned34 this year. Did I really want to squeeze in that many more years of school and wait until I was 40 to be hireable? I said "Fuck it, let's see what I can do in a year by myself." So here I am, teaching myself web development from scratch. Thankfully 10-year-old me taught herself HTML and CSS all those years ago, so it's a matter of refining what I learned all those years.