Ask HN: Am I incompotent for web development?
by m0xai on Hacker News.
Hello, i am a foreigner Bachelor Student (Business Informatics) in Germany (came a half year ago). I had experience with HTML and CSS. One and half year ago, I decided to learn JavaScript also. I completed FreeCodeCamp course and The Odin Project. My Portfolio was enough to get my first working student job as a web developer on December 2022. I then started with Tasks like removing the BootstrapVue UI Library and replace with regular Bootstrap in small projects. That took like 60h, because I had to learn vue first. My colleagues said but nothing negative about my work. Yesterday was for me like disaster. I worked until 22 o’clock, (I had to stop at 17 o’clock) to find out that I’m running a microservice in a Docker Container and the changes I made on a mail template had no effect, when I send them, since I was working on local files. I feel myself an idiot and can’t tell anyone. Am I doing the right job? I can surely say, that I love frontend development and also backend with java and Python. But loving a theme is enough to do it as a job? Edit: Thanks for all your comments, all of them very supportive and made my day better. This long-time failing experience is the first time in my life, so maybe I had to live and deal with it. And yes, I love what I do and how I feel. For me there isn’t any better feeling, after fixing a bug/completing a task. From now on, I will reading the docs more and not trying hunt the exact answer on stackoverflow at first place.