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Take A Step Back

Sometimes you just need to think things through all the way before jumping into something. I’m the type of person who just loves to jump in. I get excited what can I say? I’m anxious to do something new and often times I forget that I haven’t quite thought everything through. It results in having to back peddle and fix...

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The Firehose Project - Week 3

Week 3 of theFirehoseProject has been easy, difficult, informative, frustrating, and a ton of more emotions in between. The week hasn’t been imparticularly that difficult and I have managed to get a lot done. Nomster is officially done and I’m pretty psyched with where I am at in my progression of the course. 3 weeks completed and 2 apps already...

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Facing The Frustration To Success

Exploring new ideas, experiences, hobbies, and careers paths are about being able to handle the frustration of being completely over your head. I’ve never been one to take things on that I knew wouldn’t be a challenge. If I wanted to settle, never be challenged and never take risks I would’ve stayed a metal fabricator. The more I dive deep...

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The Firehose Project - Week 2

Week 2: done and done! My second week of theFirehoseProject has come and now gone. It’s been an interesting week with some really valuable lessons learned. It’s amazing still how much I have been enjoying coding. It’s the part of my day that really brings me a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. There is really a sense of joy and...

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We're All On Borrowed Time

Having experienced Death’s icy grips at least twice in my short 27 years on this Earth I have a unique perspective on just how short life is and can be. I’ve been living on borrowed time for nearly a decade now and then again a little over 5 years ago, simply put I should not be here writing this, I...

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The Firehose Project - Week 1

Prequel Technically speaking Monday marked my first week with the Firehose Project’s full stack web development bootcamp but since today was the first office hours/group session I will consider today to be my first week. Anyways this is just to be a record of my journey through the bootcamp. I plan on doing a weekly overview of what we have...

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Failure Is Never A Failure

Failure should never looked at as a failure. We will, numerous times, fail miserably while attempting to do something. We will fail at work, fail at asking a potential love interest out, fail being a friend, fail at our goals, fail at being a good family member, fail at a million and half other things; our nature is to fail....

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Beginning of the Firehose

Tuesday was my 1st real kickstart with my dev bootcamp and my future goal of becoming a full stack web developer. Monday was my onboarding and consisted of setting up the environment and getting everything ready and working properly but yesterday was the real kick off. I’ve got to say it feels great to be developing code and having a...

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Starting Anew

We can spend much of our life feeling a bit unfulfilled in our daily lives. Things become stagnant, doing the same thing day in and day out but these moments tend to breed unrest. When we start getting restless in our lives that’s when magical things start to happen. It can take 30 seconds or 30 years for the restlessness...

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What Would Han Do?

Our lives require a certain level of dedication to how we approach the things we want. With the right mindset and daily motto we can achieve all of the things that we wish would could do in our lives. That’s why you should always live your life by these four simple letters; WWHD. What would Han do? Han our favorite...

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