While I really found my stride with the Sinatra project, for some reason Rails brought me right back to overthinking and self-doubt. But at the end of the day, anyone who’s made it this far in the program is capable and I knew I could get through any problem that popped up… and it seemed like there were many!
While I was nervous to build my first full-on web app using Sinatra, I was about 10x less nervous than I was going into the CLI project. This time I was more confident that I can figure things out and take an idea from a blip on the radar to full-blown, functioning program.
I’m not going to lie - this was intimidating for me. It’s clearly one thing to complete tasks and labs, read lessons and watch lectures, but another thing entirely to create a working program from scratch.
After graduating college with a business degree and no true idea of what I wanted my career to look like, I got a job at the top sports network, where I learned a love of sports is not all it takes to want that life. I moved to a new state and opened a business, which was also not for me. Lost and just looking for a paycheck and benefits, I got a job in administration. While it’s been fine, it’s never felt like something I am truly proud of. It took all of those stops on my journey to push me to realize I need to be challenged. I want to push myself. I don’t want a job I can just skate through every day for the sole purpose of collecting a paycheck every two weeks. I want a career. I want the opportunity to grow and continue learning.