I didn’t consider tech as a viable path to a job until about my fifth attempt at starting a career.

My interest in building with technology, however, started early. In sixth grade, I began creating websites as a hobby, using the family computer in my dad’s den. My first web project was made up of HTML and CSS files that I wrote in Notepad, with a handful of ‘90s anime images.

Throughout middle school, I broke down premade layouts downloaded from different websites, and rebuilt them to my specifications. I learned about the web console, and how to access a site’s existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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