Wheeeeeee!

As of about 2:30 PM on Thursday, December 12... I have a job as a front-end/interface developer!
As I had mentioned in my previous post, I was able to spin my brief amount of training and lack of experience as a plus, because they were specifically looking for someone who they could train on a new platform--someone who was willing and able to learn quickly.

It's pretty crazy when I take a step back to look at it: with no programming experience, I wrote my first lines of markup about 10 weeks ago.  I wrote my first lines of JavaScript maybe about 6 weeks ago.  But I was able to point to what I had learned and built in the course of a grand total of about 8 weeks' time, and use it as evidence that I'm able to pick up something new very quickly, and motivated to do so... and that was good enough for my new employers.  So now... I'm a developer.  A month short of my 40th birthday, I've successfully switched career tracks in the span of about 2 months' time.  I have no illusions as to how lucky this was... but it's been a bad-luck kind of year for the most part, so it feels really good to finally have something break my way again!