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from The Grug Brained Developer

From the covid-19 pandemic onward, I deviated from my studies to pursue programming full time: I joined the first cohort at 42 Lisboa as a student – I'd later join the team as a volunteer, and not even a full year after I found myself in the position of interim IT manager, helping to establish the very new campus of 42 Porto.

There, I produced internal software (in Django) to help administrate some academic matters, and some other QoL scripting. It felt really nice to make something that would save people time and make everyone's life easier.

And then I quit the job to spend the Summer on a farm in Slovenia.

I have some thoughts about being a professional programmer, but it is very clear to me that I like it (programming) very much; and I've learned that one must be very careful with mixing what one does with pleasure, with what one does out of necessity.