Originally went to school for painting and printmaking, played in bands, and have now been designing and developing since 2010. I write the curriculum and teach at Perpetual Education.
I feel like we need to just be more honest. Most people have a false sense of time these days! You aren't going to 'code up' a whole super serious app in a week! But it feels like we should be able to. Real jobs (in my experience) are working on a component... or just a small part of the website at a time.
There's a lot of gray area, but - also - there are just people who feel like imposters - because they really don't have any skills. We have to be real about that. There's a LOT of people who come to me and show me their portfolio and it's some React porfolio repo they forked and then just kinda broke. That is different than "learning" - and so, they actually are imposters. And I feel for them. Whatever circumstances make someone feel like they need to split reality... sounds rough. It's the marketing. People want to "become devs" - instead of just being who they are - and learning some new stuff to add to their skillset.
But if you work through a book like "Exercises for Programmers" (and you can problem-solve your way through) then, it's just a fact: You can do the things. So, you have to choose to believe in yourself. There's always going to be somone who is "better" at something than you, but we're all on our own timeline - and really, the bar is set pretty low.
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I feel like we need to just be more honest. Most people have a false sense of time these days! You aren't going to 'code up' a whole super serious app in a week! But it feels like we should be able to. Real jobs (in my experience) are working on a component... or just a small part of the website at a time.
There's a lot of gray area, but - also - there are just people who feel like imposters - because they really don't have any skills. We have to be real about that. There's a LOT of people who come to me and show me their portfolio and it's some React porfolio repo they forked and then just kinda broke. That is different than "learning" - and so, they actually are imposters. And I feel for them. Whatever circumstances make someone feel like they need to split reality... sounds rough. It's the marketing. People want to "become devs" - instead of just being who they are - and learning some new stuff to add to their skillset.
But if you work through a book like "Exercises for Programmers" (and you can problem-solve your way through) then, it's just a fact: You can do the things. So, you have to choose to believe in yourself. There's always going to be somone who is "better" at something than you, but we're all on our own timeline - and really, the bar is set pretty low.