The Last Steps

Final project week hasn’t even begun, and I’m already close to finished with my React project. In pursuit of my new career path, I’ve found myself as excited as I have been in years.

As much as I enjoy coding, what has been particularly compelling is the ability to create a new road for myself and embark on a new career. To me, programmers are the new architects. The great buildings have already been designed; we are the architects of the future, now.

Knowing that, I want to find my space. I want to land in a position where I’m respected and connected. My career coach has already pointed out traits of mine that will help me when I’m searching for the right companies. I will have to treat the job search part of this equation with the same fervor as I did for the regular curriculum.

I’m already thinking about how much I’m going to miss school, my classmates and my teacher. I don’t know what I would have done in 2020 had I not decided to join Flatiron and change careers. All things considered, I gave myself a purpose in a year full of uncertainty. I made a new path for myself while so much crumbled around me in the world. I’m so thankful for the foresight I apparently had in anticipating the need for change.

It’s put up or shut up time.