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Creating, in many forms has always been a major part of my identity. I have been doing music work, passionately for the past 10 years. Gradually, I shifted from performance to production, and I realized I really enjoy creating meticulous original projects on computers. To subsidize my music passion, I've worked in a few kitchens and various manual labor jobs. Worn down from unfulfilling jobs, my music excitement started to dwindle, and I eventually took a liking for creating web-based apps.After many months of self-learning online, I enrolled in a programming course at Epicodus, covering React, Ruby, Javascript, Github, Webpack, HTML, CSS, to name a few. Immediately after Epicodus, I worked as an Intern at Goalden Hour, a small start-up, where I practiced agile development in a professional setting as well as learned to use Typescript, and Mobx while working with React.The most important thing I've learned how to think like a programmer. I am able to pick up languages swiftly and have found I can pair-program and work with a team with ease. My strength in React, Typescript, and JavaScript, is my proudest accomplishment during this journey, and the simple pleasure I get from doing front-end design, makes me confident I will do well as a developer.Luckily, I found a Ski and Snowboard shop that needed a website built, right as Covid hit. Landing a job, right out of school, during the onset of the epidemic, was extremely daunting, but I got lucky. I have teamed up with another developer to build and maintain their website. I am the lead front-end developer and my partner is the lead back-end, but we both can take each others' tickets. We have written scripts linking or brick-and-mortar store's inventory with the website, eBay, and a couple of other places, and I have managed the outsourcing of the SEO to an SEO company. While we created the scripts to sync the store's inventory to the other sources, I was able to learn and implement Python for my first time.