The Developing Developer

 After A Week Off I hope you had a great Thanksgiving (if you observe that American holiday)! I was able to go out to Orlando, Florida to explore Disney World and Universal Studios with my family--thanks mom for covering the plane tickets and hotel rooms! I've been trying to get my barrings since taking all of last week off--I was gone last Monday through Friday. It's been a bit harder than I expected, and that seems to be the theme I've been encountering lately. Everything is harder and taking longer than I had first planned. 32% Is Not That Great Thirty-two percent is how far into The Odin Project's JavaScript Course I have come. I was aiming for something like 80% completed at this point (the end of November) in 2021. I think there have been a variety of contributing factors that led to me being in this position: a) my timetable was aggressive to begin with, b) the projects have taken much, much longer than I anticipated, and c) it has been hard to find a lot of tim

 Accepting Busyness I've been able to up the hours I'm putting into coding. I've been surpassing 6 hours a week pretty consistently. I'm proud to nearly double what I was putting in before. However, my hope to code on the weekends continues to be unrealized. The realities of being a responsible adult keep catching up with me on the weekend and coding keeps getting dropped in the juggling act. And that's okay. My goal is ambitious, but my current job is flexible. If I need another month (or two) before I've got the skills needed to land a job I'm really wanting, they will work with me. I'm really glad to have that kind of buffer, especially now that learning everything come January looks less and less realistic every week that goes by. Streamlining Processes I'm getting better at recognizing when I've hit a wall and then changing my approach to break through that wall. I'm in the midst of building a to do list web app and there's a lot of