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by brailsafe 2388 days ago
To build on this, I find that an arbitrary challenge doesn't really work for me. Deadlines, blackbox debugging, and quizzes fall into this category. I was fired from my first front-end job because much of the work ended up being me trying to debug opaque problems in Ember.js v1, and lack of productively writing CSS after solving the design and layout problems. My job was building UI, but I excelled at solving the CSS, JS, and design problems, then I'd stall at actually productively writing it. I'll usually feel guilty about falling behind and grind myself to sleep deprivation to slowly get it done.