>be me
>tutorial hell
>cant focus on shit
>start writing my own graphical text editor from scratch
>implement everything from text rendering to the screen to drawing squares, panels, buttons
>handle input events, selection, copy, paste
>implement datastructures to hold state for undo/redo

surely that's enough to show that im not retarded in order to get a junior job no? i also have some more projects but not as impressive as a fully functional text editor