Unsure of what to do. Would love advice from those who have been in the industry a while.

HI,

Im new, i started last year, but i swiched a lot as well from software to web etc.. and i spend lots of time chaning a lot of lanuages. It took me a year to start baically.

But what i can tell you, is that the more you do , the easier it is . So if you spend enough time on one, ti will come naturally.

JS is pretty hard i think . You are trying to be a developer and a designer ! There two are both different! It takes a lot of time to be good at both, would you agree? If yes then you know why, because it takes time to learn it, a lot of time. Thats why in companies you hire people that are in specific field. Masters. They pay people that have payed the time to be a master designer, a master php developer etc.. trying both, will take lots of time, unless ur form childhood , then you should be or could be both easy since in childhood time pass very fast .

Its rare to see a developer and a good desinger. There are many people that say, ' im a designer...' but actually, anyone would say, they crap. REally.

Im a developer, not fully yet, but soon , this summer. But you know , for cople of months, from time to time, i learn about design.

When i look on wbeistes,i look at their desing, im critical , i look at what i like, i train my eye to see good . Also , when i try to match colours. I go an learn color theory, it takes time , but step by step. Dont rush it it otherwise your going to get frustrated and wont do what you want to and might have a one month break ( which isnt allways bad ) .

I havent done now anything since 4 week. mainly because i couldnt but now im lazy. But from previous experience, i improvedw with a two week break. Which i didnt decide to have eaither. But by the time, i was of course still reading some stuff and looking how OOP works etc... and reading stuff, when i camed to coidng, i sudently wrapped eveything and made progress . Strnage huh. I had same situatiom from martial arts too.

Try to focus on one the best, and try to involve maybe desing if ur in JS , but dont go ont it. Just be calm . You need time to do anyhting . A senior developer , you know them right? they can do like a lot of stuff and can do like anything and allways find solutoin. Guess how long it takes to be on , 5 years in commerce. ( thats what i have been told ) I dont think it much. You can take a year off , thats 4 years. Its still a lot. When ur a senior, you can do stuff pretty easy, you know it. Then you can learn how to desing maybe. It will be less frustrating and you will be just learning stuff for the desing . Same as me now, im doing PHP, because i want to move fast, later ill learn some JS and then Ruby on Rails.

If your talking about money, hey! theres a quick script. Spend like 720 days doing it , and then your ok. What is 2 years of of 80years ( assuming well live 80 years) . Yet , people say life is short but tis the longest thing we ever do .

But if were talking it for serious, you can think , if you have PHP maybe or server side language, do to full websites. I mean , you can use WP and developer for companies that will buy it for minimujm as 2k . Individuals lets say 50-200 . YOu might get it in month or not , but if you do its still a lot. You have to bee good, show that you can do stuff . People will look for you .

Hope this made sense. And hope i helped , and i hope i didn tgo too much off topic xd or rather , i hopei answered a part of your questoin xd.

Happy Coding :D