What's the point?

I had a sudden epiphany today.

All this extra learning in the directions of software engineering, upping my graphic design and vector graphic game in learning how to make screen prints, making iOS apps, fiddling with options and investing, learning new programming languages and paradigms, it's all a waste of time! It's just too much effort.

What do I get? Self satisfaction? More job opportunities? A daily challenge? Surely those are things that nobody wants to have! Just stress! Just more work piled on top of work!

I'm just gonna get my snug 40 hour a week job and call it a day. No more self-development, just buy a house, move in, and work that 9-5 for the rest of my days. You win life. I'm out.

My Resolve

So, I can hear you nearly closing your tab (if you haven't already) rolling your eyes, and sighing, saying something like this loser - it's just a blog . However, there is something that affects you. In light of my lifestyle change,

I won't be making any more Skillshare videos, any more art prints, or programming a single line ever again.

A Scrap of Good News

Sorry if I've offended you in this post, but there's even better news:

this is an April fool's post. 😂

Oh, it's also my birthday (NOT an April fools joke = trust me I've heard that one just a few times 😉).

I'm 27. And old. ☠️

🍺 Cheers!

-Chris

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Hi! I'm Chris Frewin, a full stack software engineer, entrepreneuer and educator!

Chris on Full Stack Craft's YouTube channel.

Ah... 😌 I still remember opening up my very first Bash terminal on Ubuntu... it was late summer, in Cornell's Engineering Quad... in short...

It was love

at first sight!

Ever since that first Ubuntu experience, I've been in love with writing software and I've learned an extensive variety of frameworks, databases, design patterns, and languages, including TypeScript, JavaScript, .NET, Python, React, Redux, ABAP, SAPUI5 UI5, C#, PHP7, Postgresql, Magento, and more. I love the challenge of building profitable SaaS products!

I'm also a full stack software educator. I cherish teaching what I've learned over the years, because I think software development is especially difficult these days, with all the new tools and frameworks that seem to come out daily.

With all my courses, I focus on both advanced and niche topics and in each course I always make considerations into the broader backdrop of the entire full stack software ecosystem. If such courses sound interesting to you, please check out the Full Stack Courses page. One final note: I don't want money to be the reason you can't learn from my courses, so if you can't afford a course for whatever reason, simply send me an email and I can get you the course for free.

I don't want anyone to be intimated by the noise of the software world - I too struggle and reach out from time to time for help and mentoring. To this end, I try to make my courses as clear as possible so you don't get lost or confused. I also avoid the theoretical - I offer real world examples far beyond the overused 'todo list' app example.

You can checkout more about my company, SaaS products, and site portfolio on my bio page.

I sincerely hope you enjoy the blog!

- Chris

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