no thats not true.
it being a grind makes it not worthwhile
if its a grind its not worth it.
unless you have slave mentality
Programming is a GRIND...
Oliver Young
Levi Sanders
go do the other things, don't believe his fucking lies when you saw the truth. The reality is that only a small minority is going to make it in this field. And they like to come online to tell everyone how ez it is to be successful. I made $150/hr, but I leave out the fact that I had to no-life to do it. (60+ hours a week of coding, 100+ commits a month on github. 20+ full fledged websites/apps. Studying for interviews every damn week. Going through hundreds of rejections. Having to relocate. The job itself was 9-5, but the work is so hard that the only way to keep it required me to spend extra hours studying on the things I got stuck on.
Daniel Campbell
Devops is the way to go if you:
1. don't love programming
2. are not working at bleeding edge
3. aim to make 6 figs as a corporate engineer while still maintaining some semblance of a life outside of work
Mason Sanchez
Where’s the upvote button
Joseph Long
The one thing that sucks about programming jobs is having to go on call to maintain microservices. At my job it's expected you have to wake up in the middle of the night and stay up to fix crap you didn't even build or know anything about because your team inherited some other team's crap.
Levi Cox
Absolutely related. I was studying web dev when i was 22 an bevame depressed. I coulndt follow c and c+ class (they teached that on the first year, as well as xml and sql on the cmd)
I was sick of it. The problem is now im near 30 amd still jobless
I want to study sys admin for 2 years and perhaps some cisco cert and apply on every helpdesk job or as a tech support in a shop
ANYTHING is better than being a struggling or even mediocre programmer. You get exploited and you bring work home. With helpdesk etc you finish and you are free. Or repairing pcs in a shop. The problem is on sys admin 2 year degree aproved by thr gov there's also some programibg again and i also struggled with creating databases out of texts... and studying at 30 is depressing. I dont know what to do. I want an easy office job but you have to study all that shit first.
Sebastian Watson
>no life, no time for friends or hobbies
you're grinding way too hard if your whole life becomes programming
>You have to spend all your free time practicing leetcode, doing open source projects and other nerdy virgin shit
You can just learn the jist of Java and Spring and that should be enough to get a pajeet job that you can suck benefits out of.
>doing open source projects
Is this a meme? I have never made a public Git commit and I'm still getting offers
Jordan Ortiz
a 9-5 doesnt pay nearly as much as a programming job copypasta from stackoverflow all day long
John Murphy
>Make it
>Working
Jonathan Sullivan
Glad I didn’t fall for the programming meme. I run an IT dept but the real technical stuff is handled by an outsourcing company that owns all the network hardware and handles servers and all that. I get to sit around reading and drawing all day and occasionally restart a computer, setup a work station, or take inventory. Sure programming makes better money but if you don’t have side hustles you aren’t gonna make it anyways.