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This January I was laid off from a large fin tech. I was an executive assistant to their CTO (only admin, no engineering require in my role). I hated the job, just like I hated the previous admin job, I was miserable but needed the job and felt stuck. Tbh, being fired felt like a blessing.

Anyway, a few weeks after I got laid off I decided to learn web development. Working for a CTO and supporting other engineers made me curious about their work, those people were really interesting. So I set a self-studying guide, and by May I was accepted to a good (imo) bootcamp.

In the bootcamp we are suppose to work on personal projects during spare time, I decided to code a google maps app that allows you to clink on certain areas and get info about that particular area, something simple. Soon I realised that getting coordinates for polygons vertex by vertex in a whole city would take longer than my adult life, worse yet, I could not find tools online to help me do that.

But that's when the magic happened, instead, I coded a tool to make my life easier and retrieve the coordinates. Being able to make a tool to overcome challenges or facilitate goals feels like nothing else. The app is quite simple, but I honestly haven't felt that happy in many years (I am 29 if you wondered). I think I will chase this feeling for a long time to come now.

ps - A friend said I should post here, I hope you like my app (: