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BlakeT87

Hello everyone! My name is Blake! I have a background in automotive manufacturing, working for a steel stamping manufacturer for the past 12 years. I've worked my way up through the company from a simple machine operator, to now being the Assistant Manager for Quality Control & Engineering for the past 3 years. It's a great company to work for, but I'm afraid I will never be compensated what I feel I'm worth. Originally back in 2007 I was supposed to go to college (wright state university) for computer science, but due to the recession and overall poor economics, I was unable to procure funding. I've regretted that for years, and I feel like I'm missing out on my true calling by not being part of the tech community.

I made a decision to get into coding, and I have been following freecodecamp and codecademy for about a month now. I worked my way through the 'responsive web development' course on freecodecamp then moved over to codecademy for JavaScript.

So far, I've completed a few very small projects from FCC, and strictly HTML/CSS. But I feel like I'm getting to the point where I want to make a project using all 3 (HTML/CSS/JS).

I started rooting around on reddit and discord, and found codenewbie when I was listening to the audible version of 'The Pragmatic Programmer: 2nd Edition'. And that's what brings me here today.

I hope to learn more about what it means to be a developer, and meet some like minded individuals along the way. Feel free to shoot me a message and we can connect!

~ Blake (BlakeT87)