The year 2016 has been revelatory for me. It is the year that I finally became hooked to the Community aspect of the tools I work with on a daily basis. To explain why this needed to be explicitly “revealed” to me, I’ll take a step back and tell you about my background. Changing Careers
I have been working for some time as a government agent before, working on IT integrations amongst others. After several years of working on fruitless tasks and turning in elected circles, I was so fed up that I decided to quit that job and start freelancing. As there’s no such thing as a “general-purpose government freelancer”, I opted to do web development instead.
I primarily chose the platform to specialize on based on sheer market volume, to make sure I had a sizable target audience: WordPress. This meant that I spent the first year mostly working in isolation on smaller client projects to get to grips with WordPress and PHP development (and web development in general, as I had almost exclusively worked on desktop applications up until then). As I have been doing development with varying degrees of intensity for about 25 years now and working on many different
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