I have memory problems, problems with reading comprehension and suffer from physical pain, would it be a good idea to become a web developer?
Hi Diana - sounds like quite a lot to deal with. Pros: You can set up your workspace to accommodate your needs You can set up your work schedule to fit with your own peaks It's clean work and no lifting You can work from home as a freelancer or employed - the pandemic has proven to companies that it's a reasonable option You can be away from home and still work - even if being away from home isn't travel but hospital or rehab Cons: You do have to have a good memory although you can scale down your role accordingly... more on that later You have to be able to read and implement technical code - programmers spend a lot of time on sites like StackOverflow reading the questions people ask and the answers to see if it will solve the problem they're facing. Scaled Down - I was listening to a podcast interview with a woman who had run a full-service web development business and she decided to scale back and offer just one of the services but to do it expertly - and she got more business than before. So, while your memory issues may make it inefficient or hard to become a programmer you may find you can build a nice little business doing WordPress sites with (say) a Divi theme (or elementor etc). You learn Divi and WordPress admin really well and leave more technical jobs to other companies. If you can create a subscription service where your customers pay you a retainer and each month you handle upgrades, you contact them for fresh content, you put it all together. There are no timelines that you'd get with a big project so if you're having a bad couple of days you just put off the tasks until you're through it. Some months you'll have more work, some less, but the income is fixed and reliable. Look up "Julia the Geek" - her business is teaching women how to build a business with WordPress. Now, I used WordPress as my example, but you could probably do it just as well with Wix, SquareSpace etc. If you had a go with the programming and discover that you're enjoying it then there's even more options. Come back and let us know how you get on.
Thank you so much for your reply, I guess it would take some trial and error, but like you said, there ARE options out there, and everyday I'm learning more and more about them thanks to people like you I'll look her up
Dedication is everything. Memory problems will make your journey more difficult, but it is still possible. My solution for the memory issues: take notes. Take a lot of notes. When it comes to code, you will be able to put notes in the code as well.