Programming is a GRIND. A degrading waste of time for most people who aren't lucky or own a business where you devote your entire youth into a fake dream that only furthers someone else's career. Even if you "Make it" at any moment you can lose your job and get thrown into bad company after bad company. Where you have no life, no time for friends or hobbies. You have to spend all your free time practicing leetcode, doing open source projects and other nerdy virgin shit while the Chad's are outside slaying pussy all day long.
Programming is the biggest scam in America. Get a regular office job that's 9-5, spend your free time doing w.e you want, instead of unpaid preparation to keep your skillset relevant.
That preparation time is only necessary if you are trying to seek employment in le trendy bay area start ups. Data structures don't massively change. Sorting algorithms don't massively change. C is still the most powerful language in the world. Most companies are still running software built on decades old code and your meme pajeet web academy JavaScript stack isn't going to mean shit. CS jobs can be some of the cushiest in the world outside of the bleeding edge.
William Jackson
>He fell for the programming meme Why don't you go hack google
Ian Sullivan
I don't know. I just got my first dev job. I only work 9-5, sometimes leaving early, often on Thurs and almost always Fri. I'm making $80k (+$6k EoY bonuses) and free catered lunch. The 401K is not vested until 3 years, which sucks, as I'll be gone to a better dev job before then.
Overall, not bad, though. I really love programming and I'm making $86k at my first job doing it. The office culture is kind of soul sucking, but I enjoy what I do and am making enough to save 75% of my earnings, so meh. Enjoy your doomer feels, OP.
Carter Cruz
How did you get the job? I graduated last year with a Bachelors in Computer Science and still can't find a job. In college people were chasing recruiters and fighting over internships. It seems extremely oversaturated. At this rate I'll probably go to optometry or dentist school so I can make $300k a year.
Owen Moore
being programmer who works for clients is job from hell. Anyone who made any successful project by himself can relate
Colton Lee
>I only work 9-5 > I really love programming
Yeah but you don't only program 9-5, that was the OPs point lol.
Grayson Cox
Everything worthwhile is a grind user
Carter Thompson
>not practicing by doing shit that also makes you money and/or is fun I made 6 figures from RuneScape bots
