I arrived at web development after nearly 20 years as a Unix systems administrator at the world's largest, oldest, three-letter, technology company. My programming experience had been limited to some Korn shell and Perl scripting but it was my favorite aspect of that job. In fact, I won an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for some custom scripting work I did to implement a high availability server environment. Since becoming a web developer I’ve found that I really enjoy the creativity and problem solving that’s required both logically and visually. I’ve enjoyed all of the web projects I’ve worked on and have learned so much from each. Working to make a YouTube search app accessible using a screen reader was enlightening and humbling as I began to understand what the visually impaired must go through to navigate a web app. It was great to work on a real-life project by building a Tennis Ladder app which I plan to launch in my area this summer. My favorite technologies are React, Redux, Node, and MongoDB. I see endless possibilities for apps that solve real world problems using this stack. Being a developer requires that you cultivate two approaches that are important in software development and life in general. First, you must be life-long learner since technology changes such a rapid pace and there is always something else to learn. Second, you must see success as incremental. There are very few big wins so you have to find satisfaction along the way. Happy that a function returns what you planned or that a single element appears just as designed.