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I started as a backend Java engineer for a large ISP. I loved it, I didn't what to do anything else. When I joined a consulting agency they put me in a company that had pretty good backend engineers. What they completely lacked was the frontend part. The product developer and the customers demanded a more dynamic interface but none of tech seemed to care. All said 'it's not possible'. So I started learning JavaScript, learned AngularJS (which was brand new at that time and fitted great in the corporate/enterprise setting), built a couple of sideprojects and then started evangelizing Product and Dev. I was allowed to improve a first Product, which was a great success. Then every product developer wanted webapps. So I started teaching developers at the company and the consulting agency.

This taught me: Find the tool that does the job. Even if you think the tool looks stupid.