In my current job-hunting state, I’ve been struggling to balance everything I *should* be doing to look impressive to interviewers with what will actually make me feel prepared. And while many of my peers have been working on side projects to demonstrate their range and proliferation of skills, a hefty portion of my time has been devoted to solving algorithm challenges. There’s always the standard Cracking The Code Interview route for those who are great at reading technical text. But, while my ADD is a huge fan of coding in practice, it resists technical reading like my cats with the nail trimmers. …
Up until April of this year, I was a card-carrying member of the Screen Actor’s Guild, pursuing The Dream out in nitty, gritty New York City. Except it wasn’t the dream I thought it would be. Getting to actually act only happened once or twice a year. And even though I was regularly working on sets as a background actor or a stand-in to pay rent, my actual life really consisted of… well, an insane amount of Candy Crush. I killed so much time on Candy Crush that I actually started playing it to kill time while bingeing on Netflix. And then one morning in April, I woke up, realized I was almost 30, and was absolutely miserable in my daily life. Chasing The Dream was sucking the life out of all the other dreams I had for myself. And I decided to stop. I decided I’d rather be actually happy, than spend my life pretending that the life of an actor made me happy. And through a rapid-fire series of ‘ah-ha’ moments while lying in bed and procrastinating the rest of my day, I decided I wanted to try to learn to code. I tried my hand at a free online JavaScript course, and was immediately hooked. It felt better than Candy Crush. …
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