Looking for your recommendation...

[Gr8Tortuga]

Ali,

I love your blog and appreciate all of the time you offer the community. While I realize you are busy and are focused in software development, I am someone seeking a career change into Front End Development myself. I'm no Spring Chicken, but I'm young enough to give it a go.

My question is two fold:

1. Do you have anyone you could recommend with the same passion and conceptual delivery in Front End Development and Web Design, as you have for Software Development? I'd love to see their recommended path for someone such as myself who is seeking a career change a little later in life.

2. I know you focus on many things, so I'd pose the same question above to you - Do you have a recommended path for someone such as myself who is seeking a career change a little later in life. I love the work I've done so far through education (finishing up an IT degree with a web design focus - Thanks G.I. Bill), but want to find a more aggressive path which allows me to achieve my goals of gaining expertise, while still working my "9-5" to pay the bills.

Thanks so much for your time and effort in this response.

Warmest regards, Gr8Tortuga

P.S. I'm a NoVA guy myself, so always nice to see someone local doing so well!