Any other software devs on /biz? What are you doing in your main job? How much are you making? Any side hustles? What difficulties/problems are you seeing/trying to solve?
For myself: Supporting banking systems (Java), 75k/year (Canadian aaaaaaaa)
Side hustles - running an amazon business. Also writing software for amazon sellers + a video game.
Difficulties/problems - little understanding of how to generate approximate data for ecommerce systems. E.g. how Jungle Scout generates approximate number of sales for the sellers if anyone else here sells on Amazon
What do you actually code in Java, OP? Is it anything difficult?
Michael Morgan
Is that you moon? Wanna join my shitcoin?
Carson Sanchez
I do a bunch of shitty front end angular work for a fairly well known web conferencing company. Hardly glorious but it pays pretty well (70k starting), good benefits and it’s low-stress.
Carson Parker
>70k a year >work 50-60+ hours a week >have to do code moves at nighs >get calls occasionally to fix bugs on weekends because it's an "emergency" >sit inside all day staring at a screen like a cuck >1 bedroom is $1400 a month >have to work on side projects to stay relevant >have to keep up with certifications and studying to stay relevant >have to know 5 different languages as a baseline for eligibility to get hired
programming is a fucking meme. all this work for a measly 50-70k. you could invest same amount of work into virtually any other industry and come out making the same or more. even the managers at Publix make this much.
Mason Morgan
Fuck with with young nigga Thaiboy you know you gon' lose
Takes 3-6m to become productive on average. I do support for an old ass internal J2EE enterprise app + support for a rule based system (think something like jrules). You're gonna need a relevant degree to get in
Nope
Low stress matters more than people will admit in the industry. That and the immediate manager can make or break the job
Ryan Reed
>70k a year >work 50-60+ hours a week
Even in Canada that'd be pitiful. You're basically earning 50k/year if you count it hourly. Sucks to hear but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. My first job was ~43k/year + stressful as fuck, I started drinking
>get calls occasionally to fix bugs on weekends because it's an "emergency" Fuck that noise man
Samuel Rogers
>sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do Yeah and how long are you going to keep up this mentality for? Life? Until you realize there are many other career paths that are less competitive, require less studying, and have just as good of benefits for same salary.
Juan Jenkins
unemployed with seasonal work. kek. Thought of a good set of techniques for crypto trading that I will put together into a bot soon. That should be interesting at least. writing code for wages is a garbage life. can't imagine anyone is happy with it long term.
