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I wanted to do some volunteering work for a very long time. But I end up postponing it. In the last years, the reason was both working full time and studying at the same time. Next to it, there was not much time left. But when I finally got my degree in 2019, I decided it is finally the time. I looked and decided to apply for the position of instructor in a youth center. Sadly, we didn’t manage to complete the program as it stopped because of a global pandemic. But I still managed to learn some things. In this post, I explain why I chose that and what I learned from it.
Background
When I was a kid, I didn’t have much, and I had to work hard for everything. And when I was around 10, I decided I wanted to work with computers when I grow up. It was a long and challenging journey with many obstacles while working jobs I didn’t want and trying to learn everything independently. We didn’t have fast internet for most of my life, and we couldn’t just google things. And having a laptop was a luxury. But through hard work, I got a project that got me my first job. It wasn’t good pay, but I had two amazing mentors. Next to them, I realized I don’t know anything and what I do know is wrong. But over the six months, I learned I lot. One of them introduced me to proper JavaScript and had me build my first single page application. Building single page…
