A rising Web Designer and her frequent emotional outbursts in a world of machines

Or: An INFJ-T in the land of Code

As part of one of our first lessons at PE we (the students) were asked to take a personality test in order to become aware of our strengths and weaknesses, as we embarked on this whole new adventure of web design.

My results: INFJ-T.

A Turbulent Advocate. Role: Diplomat, Strategy: Constant Improvement.

With my personality type there comes a constant pressure of bettering myself. Being better than I was yesterday, being better than other people, being so good - in fact - that there is nothing there that could possibly be criticized.

“But that’s impossible!” a rational person might say.

And they would be right!
It is impossible to please everyone. It is impossible to create anything worthwhile if you’re constantly limiting yourself to the blah-blah things that nobody even looks at long enough to find things to critique. It also creates a really sad existence (and I speak from experience here. I’ll tell my story of living with depression some other day)

Well, our mentor told us that it would be a good idea to publish articles about our learning process here on substack. Being the people pleasing, always-want-to-be-good-at-everything person that I am AND being the writing lover that I am, I thought this would be easy.

Queue the hysterical laughter that turns into sobbing.

Here’s a little something I published on our Slack channel today:

So where do I go from here?

After a lot of support and lots and lots of encouragement and kicks in my butt (you know who you are) from the most supportive group of people, the answer came easy:

I write about emotional stuff ! ‘Cause that’s the stuff I like! It’s what comes naturally to me and heck, this tech world needs some Anna-Lena-touch, so that more people can see that Web Design can be learned by ANYONE. You don’t have to be a cave-dwelling loner, you don’t have to love math, you don’t have to know anything about coding, heck you don’t even have to like coding!

Everything is figureoutable. Even blogging. And believe you me (coming from an avid journal writer) coding is easier than writing articles.
And would you believe it? It’s actually FUN if you learn from the the right people.