Changing My Career Path Before Even Starting One.

Society: so have you started those nutrition courses yet?

Me: uh… not really, no I haven`t, I had a lot of struggle and … it just didn`t work out you know.

Society: oh okay, so what are you doing now? Are you just spending your days blogging and stuff? … I like your blog by the way.

Me: *smirks* thanks..uh no actually, I`m learning and practicing writing and I also started to learn to code, there`s a thing called freelance where…..

Society: *looks at me perplexed thinking that I`m totally wasting my time and life and youth and everything else *

So I spend the next 10 mins explaining how freelance, entrepreneurship, showing them view source code of Zoella`s website so that they understand what coding is ….

I`m 19…almost 20 and I spent the last two years after I graduated high school trying to follow a conventional, safe path like all my mates, but not having the opportunity to go to a normal college, I failed.

I failed until I started considering my passion for writing something more than just a side hobby and more like a career option.

I failed until I started needing coding tricks for my blog and my curiosity for the realm started growing.

I failed until I discovered Medium which taught me that I can make a freaking living with writing and coding. OMG!!

Technically, I still am a failure because well I haven`t made any money out of these two things yet BUT at least now my belief that I can actually do it is growing day after day.

My determination is expanding with every writing trick I use, with every Freecodecamp.com mile I cross and with every person who doesn`t take my goals seriously.

So yeah before even starting the career path of nutrition that I only chose once because it was socially acceptable, I am changing my plans to something that I`m passionate about, that I`m curious about, something that will help me stay aligned with my principles and my life goals of inspiring and helping people on a more personal level.

Here`s how I plan to achieve my goals, a plan that I already started working on about a month ago:

. daily blogging on Medium (i promise they won`t all be as introspective as this one ;p ) = devote one hour per day to outline, write, and edit an article and publish it without overthinking it.

. two hours of code per day ( I`m still a total newbie, any advice or resources will be welcome)

. study other authors` and thinkers` writings and take notes.

. build two extensions this summer.

I`m feeling so thrilled right now and so confident about taking down this path even though it is a very dark road and I`m currently only seeing the small piece of the road that is lit with the small amount of light inside of me, but I`m curious and stubborn.

I might be a certified procrastinator, but when I do start, quitting is not something I take into consideration.

Any advice or guideline will be welcome. Thank you.