[jfoutz]

It's going to be hard to find someone to trust you. Going into the office, people are going to treat you like a 13 year old and expect you to do boring stuff, because they can glance at your work and tell if you're doing it correctly - or at least the way you want them to.

On the internet, no one knows your web server is running lisp. On the internet, no one knows you are 13. Refuse to do video calls, but be super responsive to email and IMs. You'll miss out on jobs, but there are a zillion out there.

I'd suggest, you build something you want. You're in a unique position to spend years building something amazing, that could make you some money. Work is essentially building someone else's dream. If your dream and their dream align, it's great. But for most people, most of the time, work sucks.

Heck, blog about react techniques. make awesome tutorials. I'm 3x your age and just started learning how to make minecraft mods. I'd suggest that, not because you're 13, but because it's kind of cool.

[lachlanjc]

That’s definitely true, jfoutz. I built Noodles because I wanted to, and I’m thinking about some more projects I might take on personally.

I’m also going to try and start writing tutorials to make learning things less painful for new folks, because with more recent frameworks like React there just aren’t a ton of articles out there yet.

Thanks!