I have to preface this by saying, I never wanted to be a Web Developer. I’ve been drawing my whole life and went to the Art Institute of Dallas for 3D modeling, with the focus of making video games. After school I was living my dream and was working for a startup company as a 3D artist creating a first-person shooter, but after two years, my dream became a nightmare. I was burned out by the long hours and the amount of stress that each day would bring didn’t seem worth it anymore. I ended up leaving, after a few odd jobs here and there I eventually fell into doing CAD for a Tower Engineering company. It was the start of my career as a drafter and I’ve been doing it ever since.

As I continue my journey into becoming a Frontend Developer, my current goals are simple:

1. Designing beautiful layouts.
2. Coding semantically concise web pages.
3. Finishing as many projects as I can.
4. Finding a company where I can learn and grow.

Now I’m nowhere near the Web Developer I want to be, but each week I get a little closer to that goal. There have been a few battles when learning to develop, each challenging in their own right. When I was learning HTML and CSS, I had trouble with positioning elements, who am I kidding, that part can still challenging. The syntax for both were easy to grasp, but it wasn’t until my third or fourth website where I finally felt comfortable. Each site I learn/try something new and it seemed to help me learn faster. Especially if I was trying to do something specific or have a certain look or layout. Eventually I was able to make static websites, now all I needed was some behavior, so naturally JavaScript became the next hurdle to jump.