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My journey into programming started 3-4 months ago when I decided I wanted to get a "real" job after being self employed for 15 years previously. I have a finance degree from a good public school so I figured I would apply to a job at a large private investment firm. Little did I realize when I started looking that it would be a lot harder for me to find a job in finance than I anticipated. It was after several job searches and a few job offers for low paying and go nowhere jobs, that I grew increasingly frustrated with the job search in general..
For some reason I got a hair up my ass to go and try my hand at programming. I have always been slightly tech savvy growing up but I have never delved into it. Somewhere along the line I started watching YouTube tutorials about programming and just seeing what was going on, I was learning lot's but not doing much actual programming.
Enter The Odin Project "TOP", I started TOP and started learning quite a bit right from the git go about well.. you guessed it, Git and Github.. pretty cool stuff really when you think about what it is and what it does. I liken git as version control software to Time Machine on my Imac. Git is something I am trying to wrap my head around currently, it seems easy on the surface but there are many layers of complexity as you learn more.
I got around 39 percent done with the "foundations" course in TOP and I was moving very slowly, not because of how hard it is, but because of my willingness or ability to force myself to sit down and learn to code. I have the best of intentions but the structure for learning new things just was not there after 15 years away from high cognitive effort tasks.
I have been running my own businesses since college and have been self employed since 2006 when I graduated from university.
I will go into more detail about my coding journey in my next blog, going to ease into this slowly so I do not get burned out.
Matt