What I Did With 3 Months Off
From approximately September 2018 to the end of December 2018 I did not work. Well, I didn't work in a way that would be considered a normal way to work. I studied JavaScript and made a lot of personal apps/projects in order to learn new tech. So, in a way, I guess you could say that I worked on myself.
The idea to take 3 months off came from the desire to attend a coding bootcamp wayyy back in about November of 2016. TBH, I had not heard of coding bootcamps until I heard about them on a tech podcast. I thought the idea was cool so naturally I looked into them.
The more I looked into bootcamps, the more I came to realize two things: 1. They were expensive. 2. They were geared primarily at people who had never coded before. Regarding point number 2, a lot of the coding bootcamps marketing teams will tell you that they are geared for all levels of coders (and to some degree, I'd agree). However,