So I’m looking to make an upgrade to my career. I listened to a book on tape from Jim
Rohnee-roner-sonz and he talks about “If you work on your job, you’ll make a
living. If you work on yourself, you’ll
make a foooortune.” Essentially for the
uninitiated this means get skills else you’re never getting paid more. Makes sense. Why would anyone pay you more for doing the same thing when you
haven’t learned or done anything to make things better for yourself or
them? Duh. Common Sense.
My older
brother and I converse often. At one
point he mentioned, in response to boredom on my end I presume, looking into
learning coding on codeacademy.com. I
promptly jumped on and wasn’t too impressed.
Then I did a little more a couple weeks later and actually liked it
pretty good. Now I’m in the nitty
gritty of learning methods, do-while loops, dot notation, and a whole bunch of
other stuff that makes computers function and your websites load right up. That is me now.
That wasn’t
always me. When I first started I
realized that technology is constantly changing and growing and so I wanted to
know what the future is so I wasn’t wasting time on a dead or dying language
that would soon become obsolete, focus/specialize on that, and make a bajillion
dollars doing it through code academy, books, and schooling. When I started looking into the different
languages though and tried to figure out which one would be best my answer
was…all of them. Kindof.
What I have
learned is that there are some pretty good basic building blocks of coding and
then things kinda branch out from there.
HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Right
now I’m on Javascript and then I think code year on code academy has you learn
html next and then css.
Before I
learned this though…gahhhhh! I wanted
to gouge my eyes out after staring through them for hours trying to figure out
the future and all the technologies and languages and how it all tied in to the
best paying job and how I should get there.
I looked up questions like, “When do you know enough to list a language
on your resume?” and things like that.
I want to know this cause people search extensively using keywords and
if you don’t have the right ones on there you never get tapped for what they’re
looking for and what you want to do.
Still not sure when to put it on there, but I think I’ll throw them on
the ‘ol rez once I get finished with code year.
I also
looked up pros and cons to learning coding.
Surprisingly there are a lot more voices out there discouraging, rather
than encouraging coding from what I could tell. A lot of that even came from people who already code too, which
is weird, but whatever. I love the
following quote though:
Yishan Wong
CEO, Reddit
“One hundred years ago,
people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate
laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world.
In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly
computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from
those who will be utterly left behind.“
This
and many other great quotes can be found about coding here http://www.code.org/quotes
So currently I’m a complete noob at coding and have
dreams of moving on and doing something more constructive with my time and
effort then granting credit to a bunch of crappy companies that are going to go
down the crapper when the dollar gets destroyed here in the next few years like
I’m currently doing at my current job.
What I’d like to do is work on projects that are longer-ish. Unique ones that kinda are all the same, but
different enough that it stretches me and challenges me and aren’t repetitive
like my current tasks are at my current job.
I’d loooove to build some apps that just went viral and made me passive
income too. I have a buddy who has a
few simple apps built, that I’ve previewed and look real simple, that make him
400 bones a year.
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