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Yes, I have deployed overseas for the military 4 times since I started programming professionally in the corporate world. The first of those, my second of five
by austin-cheney 2y ago
Yes, I have deployed overseas for the military 4 times since I started programming professionally in the corporate world.
The first of those, my second of five deployments, I taught myself to program. Yes, I was a professional programmer before I could program anything. This is actually the norm in JavaScript and unfortunately many JavaScript developers never really learn to program.
My programming speed and capabilities has dramatically improved with each of these career breaks. The strange thing about programming is there is absolutely no correlation between competence and career elevation, and these breaks have been detrimental to my career elevation.