My Creative Learning Journey

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience Come with me and you′ll be In a world of pure imagination Take a look and you'll see Into your imagination We′ll begin with a spin Travelling in the world of my creation What we'll see will defy explanation -- Pure Imagination by Gene Wilder It's been a hectic end of 2005 and beginning of 2026 for me. I had a choice in Fall 2025 a) A stable return to tech career with Irish Public Jobs programme (ARC) for those who haven't worked for 2+ years, and it comes with 6 months work experience and an opportunity to continue the Higher Executive Officer (HEO) role in an ICT department. It's a manager role but it's not starting from scratch. Stable, pension, but... to me stable means boring. b) An extension to what I'm doing so far, education and outreach advocating diversity in tech, included in this extension was finding a way to make it sustainable to keep me going (and help pay the mortgage and bills). And two courses p