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I have spent the last 3 years coding my brains out. HTML has been a part of my life since 1998 when I started reading one of my Dad's big wordy books. In 2018 I got serious and worked my way through a Udemy Course. Endless YouTube tutorials have given me thousands of hours of coding. I bricked my Surface Pro 4 becuase it couldn't handle the hours I was putting into it.
I have spent the majority of my time making sure I fully understand HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the foundations for my coding. These fundamentals have made learning any language possible.
Through my dedication, I have found a fundamental change in the way I process data. I have always been able to solve any problem, but now I feel 100% confident that I can learn any language or set of tools to do so.
My excitement for coding drives me. More than money or career success. There is a deep satisfaction that comes from programming and understanding the concepts, even when I spend sleepless nights getting there.
I may be new to this profession, but my passion and disposition for coding spans decades.
Skills:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- PWA
- PHP
- React
- Node.JS
- Express
- MariaDB
- MySQL
Previously...
As a bartender for the past decade, problem solving in real-time was a constant necessity to succeed. There was never a day where everything went “smoothly” on its own, which meant there were endless opportunities for creative solutions.
With bartending success came more responsibilities like managing teams and interfacing with suppliers. This is where my effective and clear communication shone through. There are clear parallels between the bartending and computing industries:
Computing VS Bartending
| 1 |
learning new languages and functions: memorizing countless cocktail recipes |
| 2 |
using the languages and conventions established by management: following the bar procedures and protocols of wherever I worked |
| 3 |
listening and adhering to clients’ needs: adapting to the need of every patron (client) that sat at my bar |
Takeway
The wisdom leading to my success as a bartender was to always enter a new situation with an open and elastic mind.
Quite too often, bartenders carry with them a ‘know-it-all’ attitude and that may give them success, but it is usually short lived.
However, by allowing myself to listen and learn the system of the current bar completely, I was always able to understand why they did things a certain way, then I could help make operations smoother, which led to a sturdier program and longterm successs for the business.
