sheminusminus
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies/Skills: JavaScript/Typescript for FE and BE, React ecosystem, Express, webpack, REST, testing (unit, E2E, visual), REST apis, SQL, NoSQL, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind, Figma, Claude Code
Résumé/CV: https://www.empresser.dev/resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
I’m Emily, a FE/fullstack developer with 8+ years of experience and a B.A. in Mobile Media Programming. I specialize in React webapps and can make just about anything happen on the FE.
I've spent the entirety of my career working at startups, primarily building fintech (consumer and B2B) web and mobile applications. I have experience as a tech lead and have helped grow teams from 6 to 150+.
We did a little write-up about our experience with it here if anybody is interested:
https://blog.routable.com/tablematic-a-tale-of-server-driven...
Only if you truly feel that you are missing out on something in particular-- something you can describe in unambiguous terms.
The answer to "am I missing out on something?" is always, 100% of the time, "yes", because of course no single person can experience every possible 'thing', and there are probably tons of experiences you haven't had that you're glad to have "missed out" on because they're undesirable.
if you know of some that you're really hoping to have before you move on, those are probably the only ones to even concern yourself with; but, even then, just know that it's really, really likely that they are things that are available/doable far beyond your HS years, and at the end of the day, may not have much to do with the fact that you're an HS student; you may find that they are things you'd just generally like to experience.
On a more personal note, having been out of HS for almost 13 years now, the culmination of my high school experience is basically a lot of relief that I screwed up, made strange decisions, joined in sometimes, missed out sometimes, got in a bit of trouble, helped some people, was hurtful to some others, and was generally just totally winging it, while still an HS student.
In college I eventually learned how to learn, and how to think. High school (for me) was the social version of that. I could have done much more, been more extroverted, etc, but those feelings dissipated way more quickly that I thought. A good example of this is the whole dating scene. I met my husband when we were 16 and 17 years old, and I "missed out" on casual dating for most of HS and all of college+. There were times I thought of this as a regret, but it just took me a while to, for lack of a better description, know what I'm about and what I want out of life; those regrets have been re-contextualized as "I am so glad I never had to do that."