Why I left ALX

After being in ALX for one month, I left and why is that? I left because I found my path or let me just say the ALX roadmap being planned was not going well for me and it was about to ruin me if I didn't take action.

Let me take you through it because you might be thinking "how will the roadmap ruin you when it's changing people's life?"

Before starting ALX, I had looked at the roadmap and saw they will have sprints, trimester and all. Basically, they had everything planned which was nice so I decided to start the internship. The first two weeks was nice they gave lessons on ecmas, vim, git and github. That was something I needed to learn in my life and I learnt it to the core and was going around helping people with their tasks which made me learn more.

Later one, we moved to C programming. (It was at this point she knew she fucked up) C programming was strictly backend. I've tried backend before but it was on python programming. I had my first task on it with resources and it went well and I was even feeling like a guru after printing my "HELLO WORLD".

It felt good until when we moved to complex task and they gave us like 10-14 tasks most times in a day. we get deadlines the next day but it still wasn't enough for me. I had to go through each resources they provided, go on youtube just for better understanding and guess what it was going well until the fourth week. This week, I wasn't even learning again I was just trying to get my task done. It was like I was in a school were if I don't submit my task my grades will suffer. So that was my focus (getting good grades and not learning) I had notice that and decided to work on every task by myself so I can understand it for future purpose and not just looking for a random github to copy. Honestly copying was even still stressful.

Yes, it was. All because of indentations (I was doing it the hard way my friends later told me the easiest ways to copy but I already left at that time).
ALX tasks took a whole day to finish most times and I couldn't do anything else expect I was done with my task. It was draining because even after watching tons of videos and reading tons of books I still didn't understand C programming when the task was given. I don't know but I really tried my best to stay focused but I guess it wasn't for. I thought about how people were coping with their daily life and ALX and I got some tips from them like... Take breaks and stuffs but I wouldn't want to take a break until I finish my task. It was a bad habit and I couldn't help it at that point.

Some days later, I fell sick because I wasn't taking good care of myself. I wasn't planning well. So I thought about my life in the process and asked myself some questions like:
What do I really want?
How can I achieve that without wasting any time and resources?
Where can I get help to guide me?
I asked myself series of questions and I only had one answer which was to QUIT ALX. In general, C programming was stressing me but ALX then made it worst and it wasn't good for my mental health. I told my friends that I was leaving and the asked what my next plan was I didn't really know but I wasn't didn't going back to frontend development to pick up where I left it. I had no regrets because I learnt a lot and I use some of the knowledge I learnt like "git and github". After I left, I took a course on ReactJs and started learning with that. Until I started getting gigs and I was like this is definitely my path. I prefer frontend to backend because of the visual designs that frontend has like I get to see what I'm trying to achieve in a beautiful UI. I guess that is all I needed to see and not being able to see that in C programming was not cool. I had tasks like make a triangle, circle and stuffs but it was lame. It wasn't meant for me and I'll have been killing myself if I decided to continue on that roadmap.

This was a personal decision I made for myself. Instead of following the crowd, I just had to find my path and stick to it because at the end of the day "It's my cross to carry".

I'll advice anyone starting their tech journey to only do what works for them. Because it worked for others and they are billionaires now doesn't mean it will work for you. There are different roadmaps but the best thing is look at those roadmaps and make yours. Somebody made that so you can definitely make yours.