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re: The Iron Yard is closing...

We got the news half way through our first week from the campus director. The room felt funny afterward, everyone who had been wide eyed and excited the day before was visibly distraught.

"What does this mean for us?"

I chewed on that question for the day, not much longer than that. I realized that while it was unfortunate news, we weren't getting locked out of the facility that day. We would be the last cohort in Durham that was serviced, and the doors wouldn't be shut until we were finished with what we had signed up for.


We lost one class mate the next day, and I appreciated that. However, I realized that what does the closing of this business have to do with me? Why should I be worried? If I can leave The Iron Yard with the skills that I signed up to learn, and I can take the momentum from that process to continue my journey as a developer...who cares?

I came from a music background, and never in my career was I stopped because I didn't have a piece of paper from a Berklee, or U-Arts. People want to know if you can play your damn instrument. As far as I'm concerned, if I can build a damn website, or write some bitchin' JS - what does it matter what happens to The Iron Yard?

I feel for the employees of the business because they've been nothing but supportive and knowledgable, but this doesn't change my trajectory. I'll be damned if it does.

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