How to choose the direction of development, or "Is it just boring at the beginning, or also further?

Question

Career in IT

Good evening everyone. This question looks similar to the other one, but it's not. It so happened that I have a completely free year for development and job search. I wouldn’t want to do something routine at all (I’m generally unproductive otherwise). I would like to be an ethical hacker, but I don’t see this as a profession in demand, so I started with the frontend, they say it’s still useful if anything, and you can start earning faster.
After studying the very basics, I realized that I needed to delve into HTML + CSS and stumbled upon a professional online course, and then for the first time I saw these specifications, boring psd layouts of online stores, the same type of semantic markup lines, I became discouraged and realized that even for one full-fledged such layout layout, you have to force yourself. Nevertheless, I am studying JS at the same time, I like codewars puzzles, I want to write a couple of telegram bots soon.
Question: what are the tasks in a serious frontend, is it worth enduring the layout at this stage to get the base and then specializing in less similar tasks in js, and maybe everything is different in interface layout? Or is it still not mine?

Answer 1

Do you want a job that will be fun? game? It's cool, of course, but that doesn't happen. More precisely, it happens, but you yourself have to pay money for this, and not you. In work, very often you need to step over yourself, make some compromises. In work, you have to achieve some goal, provide a service, release a product, show a result, and this does not have to be pleasant, at least not always and not everywhere. If I really want something, then I continue to eat cactus and move towards the goal. And what do you want? fun? Or something more serious? Make up your mind, no one will make this decision for you.

Answer 2

I don't want to do something routine

IT is monotonous routine work. Whatever they tell you, it will obviously be a lie - IT is a routine.

I was discouraged and realized that even in order to make one full-fledged such layout, I would have to force myself

then don't get into this swamp of imposition

I study JS, I like puzzles

study programming then, or even forget about this industry.

Answer 3

Uncle, in this case, you need to look for what you really like, and not “what kind of tasks (exist) in a serious frontend”. And you need to start in a general way, not from sitting at a computer in a warm office to poke keys on VKontakte, but from work with pens. Suddenly you are a brewer from God? Or a food technologist? Performing musician? Have you tried drawing? Sculpt from clay? 3D modeling? Teacher? Actor? Cook? Entrepreneur? But what if you really like laying your own hand-made tiles?
If you are looking for your place in life, then you need to exclude the issue of wages from the equation altogether. As well as comfort. Any work (even the most creative) is in any case 95% of the routine. The essence of “yours”, when even an autistic routine attracts you and you are ready to return to it again and again. Not because it's time to pay the rent. You can be generally a hungry bum on the street. Because you can't do otherwise. Because without it you can't make sense of your life. Because without it, you will lose a part of yourself, and this is much worse than hunger or cold. When you return to this again and again, instead of sleeping, forgetting about food, fatigue or unanswered messages in instant messengers. When you break through to this despite all the vicissitudes of fate, even when it is expressly forbidden to you. To do this, you need to look at yourself from the outside and initially do not drive into the framework.
And now, when you start to represent yourself (and with such a fanatical approach there can be no other outcome), you can already think about how to monetize it. Success will surely come. And even if he doesn’t come, what difference does it make if you are already the happiest person in the world?

Answer 4

An ethical hacker is a super demanded profession, as well as an unethical one, why did you draw your conclusions
Frontend in the key of layout is boring in any case if you do not automate layout

Answer 5

For me personally, the dull monotony of work is forgivable when from time to time there is a certain "Wow-effect". It can be anything, depending on personal preferences: rare business trips to pleasant places, observation of the first aircraft on the radar screen, a daily run of a product in nature with a barbecue, participation in a radar flight as a navigator-passenger of an aircraft, enchanting tests with a defeat targets, space launch.
Working “in the front-end”, you probably won’t see this ... Then there are two ways out: either change jobs, or engage in all sorts of extremes, and console yourself with the fact that work is needed in order to deal with them.