I was hired by Travelocity as a designer before jQuery was popular. I was involuntarily reassigned from design to a front end developer position and told to fig

I was hired by Travelocity as a designer before jQuery was popular. I was involuntarily reassigned from design to a front end developer position and told to figure it out. One of my coworkers gifted me a book about the DOM and I taught myself to program in JavaScript. When you are self taught you selectively avoid so much garbage that formally educated developers cannot live without. I guess when the education is entirely a cost of your personal time and frustration you tend to prefer utility over convention and durability over convenience. You don’t want to waste time on unnecessary things yet simultaneously don’t want to indefinitely repair sloppy code easily written with weakness and laziness.