Thankful for the Worst Damn Year of My Life
In a year that kept me asking — have I reached rock bottom yet? Also put me through every worst thing I could think of happening to me… and I survived. Why this horrible year of unemployment, broken promises, heart ache, and survival has earned my gratitude.
That when I was fired on November 22, 2021 from a lucrative cyber security position and realized that nobody else had my own best interests in mind other than myself and my partner, I decided to leap head first into full stack development. While I had years of WordPress, Wix, SquareSpace, and whatever other low-code/no-code solution I could find, I felt unfulfilled and knew something lay waiting for me if I finally would stop procrastinating learning web dev and just go all in.
It’s a year and one day later — I’m not sure if what I just experienced was the worst year or the best year of my life — every life issue imaginable as come up and extreme stress around money nearly ruined my relationship with my fiance — because I still am not sure what this road looks like for me and every hard lesson from the last year has molded me into a compassionate, yet tough-minded, creative problem-solving individual who loves programming so much more than just the salary I initially set out for.
This year was brutal because of a lot of things that were supposed to happen didn’t…