Sitting in a coffee shop last week I had the most stunning realization: I'm not a web developer anymore.

A fellow programmer sat down next to me and we got to talking about programming, the current tech landscape, and then they showed me what they were working on and it was mind blowingly cool. And then the conversation switched to, "And how about you?"

And I realized, trying to stay present in the conversation, that I'm not a programmer or developer anymore. And while I call myself a web developer, and build a lot of cool sites, I've not actually touched a line of code in a long while.

So what the hell is it that I do??

I gave a kind of elevator pitch about what I'm working on now. Their eyes lit up at what I said, they nodded along in agreement, and my wheels started turning.

There was a sudden flashback to 2020 when I took the CliftonStrengths test as part of a group coaching program I was in. Out of about 100 people in the group, I was the only Developer. Who was also... a developer.

It was funny at the time: a Developer developer.

But sitting there with my oat milk latte, cinnamon roll, and electric car driving satellite imagery programmer next to me... it hit me like a ton of bricks: I develop people.

I develop more witches than I do websites for witches.

I've said it for years: it's not the tech.

I guess now I finally see it for myself.

I don't specialize in tech. I specialize in you.

Is this what an epiphany feels like?

Patty