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Update my career change post with link to post about my termination

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articleTitle: From Hobbyist to Professional Web Developer
desc: How building my personal website led to me getting a web developer job.
date: 2024-08-18T20:28:21+0800
updated: 2024-12-16T18:35:00+0800
categories: ["life updates", "web development"]
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Looking back, even I am amazed by the fact that building this very website kickstarted my path to become a professional web developer, especially since I did not come from a tech educational or industrial background, but I am glad that it happened.
I am happy to be able to switch my career path to web development despite not having a computer science degree, and that my prior working experience as a graphic designer helped with getting this new opportunity.
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## Major Update, 16 December 2024
Bad news: My first web development ended up lasting only four months, as I was unable to pass my probation period. See my blog post ["Leaving My First Web Developer Job"](2024-12-16-leaving-my-first-developer-job.md) for more details.

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Occasionally, I was assigned to do graphic design work. I did not mind it despite having burned out from graphic design as a profession, because most graphic design works for my company were still handled by outsourced graphic designers, and I could still help with tasks working on my company's WordPress website.
I have been trying to look at the positive that at least I actually got some professional web development experience, even if it lasted only a few months, but I also learned the hard way that sometimes, an employee's goal and what the employee can offer to the company do not match what the employer actually wants.
I have been trying to look at the positive that at least I actually got some professional web development experience, even if it lasted only a few months, but it still hurts to realist that web developer, the field I am current focus on and the skill I was supposedly hired for, did not get valued by my current employer as I thought. I learned the hard way that sometimes, an employee's goal and what the employee can offer to the company do not match what the employer actually wants.