A New York City illustrator
transitioning to design & code.
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
—Grace Hopper, as quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)
All in Meta
I understand that they represent the shareholders and need to care about results and the bottom line to do their job. I also think listening to stories about what students sacrifice and go through to complete the program coupled with the facts on-the-ground would help them do better when making decisions about C4Qs resources and growth.
This is not a Cinderella story. C4Q is not a fairy godmother. Tech is not the ball. Future employers are not princes and jobs are not glass slippers.
Today, after we paired with someone from the Web class to work on our resumes, my partner (Luis) said he enjoyed my blog (thanks!) and that I should blog more about my personal journey with coding—that it'd be something he'd want to see if he was an employer.
I'm gonna try it.
I think by 12:20pm I was pretty sure I was in the deep weeds and by 12:35 I was sure of it. At 12:45 the weeds were not only deep, but on fire, and somehow taunting me.
The complexity of the task at hand—learning a language, a program, and learning to program—is coming into focus more and more. It can all be intimidating when I look up at the view from the base of this mountain between bouts of writing and troubleshooting code. I worry that the skills and methods I used to get here won’t be enough to sustain me moving forward.
While it's intimidating to read about all the people and the work that goes into making C4Q and Access Code a success, it also makes me realize what an honor it is that these people think I'm worth teaching and that they have my back as I take on this learning challenge. It means a lot.
Maybe I belong here.
My hope for this blog is that it will document not only my journey from illustrator to software developer, but a shift from imagining a world with space for me in it to claiming space for myself in the world.
