About two and a half millennia ago, Laozi wrote that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. This is surely uplifting advice for anyone standing at the precipice of a daunting journey, but I can’t help but wonder what wisdom does he offer those of us on the second step? This is the thought that continues to bubble up above the rest as the sun sets on my first week of the Juno College bootcamp. The road ahead appears as formidable as it ever did but now there is also a gaping chasm behind. And here I stand in the middle, two feet firmly in the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
Or perhaps I’m being a touch dramatic. I admit there is some comfort in dressing my feelings with quotes from the bard and ancient philosophers. It offers a whimsical perspective on my endeavours as though I were the subject of some great epic that would be told for generations to come. The reality, of course, is not quite so grandiose. I am a middle-aged man who quit his modest but stable full-time job in order to pursue a new career in a completely different field: front-end web development.
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