For a long time I identified over my craft, which was art. Not that it isn’t my craft anymore, but it isn’t the main one anymore, I suppose. That is because I had to make a life-changing decision to change careers, which brought me onto my current path of becoming a developer.
I used to think art was the only thing that could be a fulfilling career. And while I already had skills in HTML and CSS, I made a necessary shift in mindset to take on coding as a new passion. When I seriously started learning to code, I was afraid I had left that part of myself behind.
But over time, I noticed something: what once made me draw for hours now makes me explore how things work, how problems can be solved, and how I enjoy pushing my own understanding further.
It’s the same curiosity, just a different tool set. I still miss the quiet flow of painting sometimes and the way I could express myself through art. But coding gave me a new kind of rhythm: one that rewards patience, precision, and investing time and energy into something challenging. I was able to connect with others and to discover that I can invest myself fully in a very different kind of work, which requires a completely new way of thinking, and uncover strengths I didn’t know I had.
I believe this change has been good for me, and I don’t dwell on the life I left behind. On the contrary, I look forward to my future as a developer and can work toward it with intention and focus.
Have you ever switched paths? How did it feel to embrace something completely new?
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