I played tuba full-time (Yes, it's possible and professional tuba players exist!) before I started my coding career late last year, and I've learned a lot from it. Since I was in sixth grade, practicing the one skill of playing tuba so that one day I could do it for a respectable living was the only thing I knew. That day came, and for roughly four years I performed tuba in a professional band, with full pay and crazy-good benefits, traveling across the U.S. and abroad a few times a year.
But it was a drag. I learned that playing an instrument because it's fun is 100% different than being told what to play, and how to play it. In my time performing professionally, I felt like I was back in 6th grade. I slowly stopped playing in my free-time, because it's what I did at work --what I didn't like.
When I started getting a paycheck in something I loved doing, I stopped doing what I loved doing.
So I started playing on my own again. My own etudes. My own concertos. My own lessons.
Apply this to your coding. Make games. Make little web apps. Make HTML text stories. Make whatever you like to keep you motivated. The problems you'll run in to doing these passion projects will foster yourself to solve problems, and grow.
Thanks for this P.L. Brannan. This is so true and I keep putting off bigger projects because I don't have the time but your comment at the end makes so much sense.
Little projects for 2019 is how i'm going to tackle it. Step by step every day.
Thank you
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I played tuba full-time (Yes, it's possible and professional tuba players exist!) before I started my coding career late last year, and I've learned a lot from it. Since I was in sixth grade, practicing the one skill of playing tuba so that one day I could do it for a respectable living was the only thing I knew. That day came, and for roughly four years I performed tuba in a professional band, with full pay and crazy-good benefits, traveling across the U.S. and abroad a few times a year.
But it was a drag. I learned that playing an instrument because it's fun is 100% different than being told what to play, and how to play it. In my time performing professionally, I felt like I was back in 6th grade. I slowly stopped playing in my free-time, because it's what I did at work --what I didn't like.
When I started getting a paycheck in something I loved doing, I stopped doing what I loved doing.
So I started playing on my own again. My own etudes. My own concertos. My own lessons.
Apply this to your coding. Make games. Make little web apps. Make HTML text stories. Make whatever you like to keep you motivated. The problems you'll run in to doing these passion projects will foster yourself to solve problems, and grow.
Best of luck to you!
Thanks for this P.L. Brannan. This is so true and I keep putting off bigger projects because I don't have the time but your comment at the end makes so much sense.
Little projects for 2019 is how i'm going to tackle it. Step by step every day.
Thank you