My first full-time job after University was working as a Data Verifier at StepChange Debt Charity (yes, it's as mundane as it sounds). I quickly grew quite fed up in this role and started messing around with VB scripts and Excel to create a 'note generator/template' app for my department to use. The development of this became my full-time job and over time I added additional features.

Eventually, this got me recognised by the IT department, and I got my first job in IT as a Service Desk Engineer. Although this gave me my first step into IT, it was never really for me (I possessed little patience for resetting passwords). However, I always knew I wanted to pursue the whole web/app developer thing, so I applied for internal web developer roles. Finally, after my third attempt, I got a Junior 'Web Developer' job.

The job turned out to be more application support than web development. The majority of the role consisted of working with SQL to run a fix into the database...pretty dull stuff. I began teaching myself C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML and CSS, eventually I felt confident enough to take things to the next level, so I put myself out there to find a 'proper' dev job.

I landed at Answer Digital; they were a digital consultancy, and the role included a three-month training academy to learn the fundamentals of full-stack development. The tech stack was .NET on the back-end with various JS frameworks. After only a few months on the job, I'd been on several different projects, with each one involving a different set of technologies. Out of all the technologies/languages/frameworks I touched, React and TypeScript became my favourite.