My new, old pursuit..

It has occurred to me that I am pretty bored with my current career. Maybe I have been for a while as I tend to switch companies about every 3 years or so looking for that holy grail of work environments hoping that I will join a team that is fun and technical on top of challenging and flexible, great management.. you know.. unicorn sh*t. The big problem is that I make a pretty healthy salary from these "dream crushers" at the expense of being away from my family and living in very undesirable locations with other people who either have no soul left or maybe never had one to begin with.

Going forward I will detail my pursuit of a return to Web development. I was an 'okay' front end developer but lacked the pure technical side of the coding and tools for true nut n bolts web programming. I learned Flash and Dreamweaver and I built several business websites and a few private ones as well, none with any special programming required. Also while doing this became a pro photographer and began building custom computers and  working with the new found WORDPRESS. My wife was an online marketing executive so I would pick her brain about SEO and SEM and what the trends were.  I never took the full plunge into development or even went full time.

As I contemplate where the f*ck do I start I have decided to look to edX to begin with. I will start from scratch with HTML5 and CSS to get a real grip on the framework then move into what is known as the "MEAN Stack"  which is JavaScript, Node.JS, MongoDB and JSQuery.  My goal is to become proficient in this stack and provide full stack services. I am quite easily distracted so I will of course jump around trying to get an idea about all of them at once but in my heart I would like to be a focused specialist in each so I will go the route of learning the first 20% about each and then focus on each one individually for the remainder. It seems most logical to begin with JavaScript as this is the platform for all the others.   

I as I get better I will use the skills I learn to update this Blog to then a fully custom built Blog site with really cool functionality and some fun things to do. It is quite possible though that I will fall on my face and go running back to engaging at my current job just to make myself feel valuable again. 

I don't know who will read this if anyone..maybe my lovely wife.. but I will try to be as transparent with this process as possible only because I know there have to be other people that are feeling like I am where you have some abilities and you are reasonably good at some stuff but haven't done what you're meant to do.

"Good luck; we're all counting on you"  

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