experience
I spent six years working as a special education teacher and case manager, providing direct instruction to students and doing deep dives on psychological and academic achievement testing. Then I decided to turn a lifelong interest in computing and programming into a career, first by providing on-site technical support to the people in my community, then as part of a remote team serving owners of WordPress websites, and most recently as a full time WordPress and web developer.
relevant skills
I know client and server-side JavaScript. I understand the quirks in the language. I actually like prototypal inheritance.
I know object oriented PHP, with experience writing unit tests for Symfony applications and WordPress plugins.
I write semantic HTML that’s actually semantic. There is exactly one main element on every page on this website. Every anchor actually leads somewhere. The big blue header is a header and the headings make a nice, neat outline of each page.
I don’t think that “CSS is hard”, but if it is then the people who know CSS and understand the cascade are just as valuable as JavaScript programmers.