I had promised myself that no matter what, I would keep up my weekly blogging throughout the duration of Launch Academy. That, of course broke down when it came time for group projects.

We have been notified that the formal learning portion of Launch Academy is now over. This doesn’t mean that we won’t be learning anything at all, because there is still so much to go over, but most of those will be learned through actually building apps at this point.

It’s official. Launch Academy is halfway through and over and done. That means only five more weeks of structured learning and guided projects before I’m expected to go back out into the big bad world and actually be a Computer Programmer.

This week has been a little difficult, for a couple reasons. Personally, I’m blaming it on the heat and humidity.

This was a good week, because I really feel like I’m doing well. I am getting everything they throw at me, and the challenges are feeling almost easy at times. It’s dangerous, really, as I let myself get distracted and didn’t engage enough with my cohort. Part of that may have been a little burnout, so I’m glad that this weekend was a long weekend and that I took advantage of it by going home.

Woah, there. You thought things were going so well. You thought you knew your stuff. You thought, ‘Maybe I’ll actually make it as a web developer, after all.’

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this weekend about what comes next. I applied to Launch Academy to expand my opportunities in the future - to have a real marketable skill to take me places. And I’m starting to realize that that is absolutely true. Just looking at job openings that are listed on different job boards, it’s clear that there is definitely a demand for web developers. I need to focus on proving my chops these next 9 weeks, so that a job will be waiting for me on the other side.

Sleep has become somewhat of an annoyance lately. To blame is my persistant nature of generating fabulous ideas at 1 am and reaching my creative peak at 3 am. This is bad, considering I’m 30 and I recuperate from all-nighters at a much slower than I did 10 years ago. So, I am sleeping, but recently only when the sun is out.

My first post is supposed to be one on “Why I Wanna Be a Web Developer”, but I’m still sifting through my thoughts on the subject, unable to articulate it well enough. All I know is that I DO WANNA BE a web developer, and I AM GONNA BE a web developer. It’s going to be a really hard and hopefully really rewarding process.