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Figuring things out…
“Skills pay the bills…”
That is the jest of it at least.
However, are self-taught or self-realized skills also valuable?
Sometimes I feel I need some form of validation for the skills I’ve learned on my own as a self-starter or self-taught developer. (I started a thread over on my Substack page about this very topic.)
And honestly, I’m not sure why.
Here are some of the skills I’ve developed that I want to use. Many (or all) of them I continue to build.
I’m categorizing them as major and minor with major being those I’ve been working on for more than 3 years (at the time of writing), and the minor skills in a time frame less than that.
MAJOR
- SQL (MySQL in particular)
- PHP Backend web development
- Technical Writing
- WordPress Webmaster
MINOR
- WordPress page builders (SeedProd, Elementor)
- Carrd landing page or single-page sites
- Newsletters
- Email marketing
- E-commerce (my Kofi and Gumroad shops)
It only makes sense that wherever these skills overlap is an area I can make gains.
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I write about SQL, PHP, and CodeIgniter regularly over on my technical blog, Digital Owl’s Prose.
