>love low level shit
>x86, ARM, PPC assembly, writing kernel drivers, computer graphics, high performance computation, concurrent programming, the works
>SoCal, been a passion of mines ever since the GBA days hacking games with gameshark and learning hexadecimal and learning how the gameboy as a whole works and writing my own "cheats"
>Teach myself C#, C++, C, Assembly from middle school to high school
>been pretty much alone in my passions growing up.
>The most I'd ever meet in person are the "I wanna make a blockchain MMO that's like uber but-" soyboy indian people that are evident in any programmer scene
>everyone i met was generally doing simpler stuff in python and visual basic and javascript and such, which is fine i guess, never related to them
>go to college, same shit
>everyone is a fucking webdev or appdev learning java or javascript and making "million dollar apps" or doing frontend/backend shit in angular and node.js and all that soy fuckery
>doing C and C++ and assembly projects, some javascript and C# and python shit here and there to keep my skillset mixed up. still loved C and C++.
>graduating soon
>everyone has fucking CIT and webdev and appdev shit lined up
>looking for jobs to line up when i graduate
>fucking everyone in SoCal wants appdevs and webdevs
>"junior developer" in C or C++ and embedded and all the shit I do is basically nonexistant
>have loads of personal projects in graphics and optimizations
>go to job career fairs, pass my resume around to people like intel and nvidia
>get my resume peer reviewed by people, told its strong and how it clearly shows I have a passion
>nothing promising, no calls back
>all the appdev and webdev people are getting jobs and shit at startups lined up
>every job listing i find is just apps and webdev or wants 9+ years of experience
>i should have just been a fucking javascript webdev/appdev soyboy
>prob gonna an hero before the end of the year
I should have just gone soy
