Any luck yet Jow Forums?

This is... just sad mate.
Just sad.

I () make ~$900/mth living in Eastern Europe. Making ends meet decently, I guess.

If you have the skills to sell yourself, you can likely take on freelance work and hit ~$50k/yr quite easily.

>judging someone negatively due to being ignorant of the field
Yeah, M. D. Yapko would like to have a word with you.
Also check out www.ijceh.com, if you don't mind being proven wrong.

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Got $90k/yr right out of school, feels good man.

>Just sad

Not for me, I'm comfy. I'm fortunate enough to live in a big house with rich parents while I finish my degree. I also make money on the side selling drugs. They will probably starting getting me food again in the coming weeks, and I can return to max comfort

be me at 38.
>Paid off all credit debt, but owe on house/car $1k/mo total.
>Saved up 30k
>Quit job on Wednesday and my heath has been great
Now I wake up:
1. make simple breakfast
2. weed the yard, gutter cleaing or light workout
3. go for walk around neighborhood (unless raining) then play on internet
4. eat a sandwich
5. play games
6. clean 1 room in the house each day
7. shower
8. watch anime or shows while I eat dinner
9. play games
10. moar debating on internet
11. moar games
12. sleep then back to #1

Your situation sounds good, but you're gonna need to get back to work eventually user.
What country do you live in btw?
Also have you thought about investing any of your cash or is it all just in savings?

Six months into an apprenticeship. Application developer.
I'm being paid less than minimum wage but I'm more than chuffed to shed my shame of NEETdom and finally be not-unemployed.
That said, I now have to contend with the drudgery of working life and experience coming home daily, feeling motivationally drained.

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3 years ago I was posting threads like this. Yes, there is hope.

It's good that you're getting out of your depression.

US. 60% savings. I already have a Roth IRA and 401k. I know this is a temp thing but will be a really nice vacation for a year or 2.
Not depression but more tired of it as I have been working since 15 years old. Back to back and even through school. Now I get to be me again, time to get back in shape and have time to do things like welding classes at a community college or something.

Scored a job at a lead nurturing and digital marketing company, the payment isn't great, but they took me in willing to teach me everything (.NET, API, some frontend stuff). I'm actually really happy with this

Find out if I got promoted this week.

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No, I'm autistic when it comes to interviews. My sister is about to start collage and I was supposed to help with the bills, sorry sister.

month into contract

got laid off after work nuked my 4 day workweek so I just stayed home with kiddos instead of hiring someone. Been doing all that pintrest home improvement shit my wife wanted me to do for years while kids are off to schule.

we have facebook, google and other companies researching about how machine learning can write and deploy software, services and data analysis with zero human intervention, making human programmers and useless. Electrical engineering is a joke now, because everybody use Multisim

Good luck fren

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Have a job interview Thursday for a big government contractor. If I get the job I'd be set for life.
I'm pretty stressed, anyone have any tips for interviews?

Quit my job 2 months ago and still looking for work. Any tips on passing the last interview? I have no issues getting to that stage, but once I'm there I haven't been able to seal the deal.

i've lied to my family and gf pretending i know how to code when i'm really garbage at it and thus havent been able to get a job send help

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making 350k on my w2 this year

In Feb it'll be 2 years I've been here. Still feels like it's only been a year.

good luck

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My hopes are diminishing, at this rate I don't think I'll ever escape retail. At least I'm learning interesting stuff about networking.

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>job search
*blocks your path*
*& takes your job*

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Found a webdev job for 50k, and i cant really do much more than copy and paste stuff.

I've never worked a real job at 29

Employed myself 10 months ago. Fix and sell computers. Life's good. Photo of system I built for a customer.

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full-time UPS Worldship monkey

rethinking about why I studied EE, haven't heard back from anyone

No entry level job/ paid internship yet. Need to make a portfolio to compensate for my mediocre soft skills

Got my Bachelor's in EE after eight years of farting around. I did my best to hide my autism during the interviews, yet several times I was "not a good match for the team".
Felt like giving up, but after two months I got a job.
Drawing diagrams and babysitting assembly workers has become tedious, but I still have my software side projects to keep me sane.

One year anniversary tomorrow.

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made a thread a few days ago about going to a c# .net interview knowing nothing of c# or .net
I talked with a programmer around 25 minutes first we went over the programming languages I used, asked what I did with them etc
then he explained the things they are developing and the way they work
talked around 10 minutes with the boss, he asked if I was interested, my schedule and he emailed me the next day

it's a small business, they were looking for a CS student in his last year to train him until he can work full time
the pay is good for an internship in the area and the people I talked to seemed to be pretty nice

found it after a few months looking for an internship (I had another 2 interviews before, both wanted to hire me, but one was paying the minimum salary and the other required to wear a suit for work so I refused)

all I can say to people looking for an internship don't give up, I applied to a lot of job offers and found this one through the university

Planning in offing myself on monday, i have no real money issues (i'm 29 and already saved usd 250k) but i just don't get a meaning in this shit, i literally work just to do something (still the salary is crap in this 3rd world shithole) but now even that stress me.

About to graduate soon and got headhunted for fullstack dev and offered a permanent position for 4000€/month with nice benefits. Exactly 3 years after my hello world in python.

how did you save 250k with a shit salary

I wish I was you mate

Where are you from? 250k buckaroos is a lot for a third world shithole. I saved up $500 this year and I'm from a second world shithole.

Isn't there anything you want to do?

The shit salary is in my current work, i studied economy so entered the local stock market, and with some money i made time ago (when the the memecoin wave skyrocketed and used a way in this shithole country to make the money completely legal tax free) i invested in some high risk actives (it could've failed hard, but it didn't, part was luck and other was calculated) but the money i put (like 5k usd) turned into like 25k in a year and then to the 250k in almost 3 years (still lost like 50k in the way), from there on i wasted my life doing almost nothing until i took my current job (which i'm starting to regret).

Been working 4years, managed to get a decent raise (300€) a couple of weeks ago.

if I had that much money I'd spend a couple of years in a different country learning the language

What does job /g recommended for autist?
My skills only install gentoo everyday, bash scripting and ricing system.

Unfortunately, my Keyboard doesn't have that button...

I signed up for an adult school, because I graduated from non IT related major. Wish me good luck Jow Forums, so far it's easy. I always loved computers but never go the "paper" to prove that.

Never had a real job. Thinking about starting my own business because I can shot web.

I saw a DevOps traineeship the other day. Which sounds perfect for you.
It's basically being a sysadmin in charge of automation, cloudshit and code deployment.

After doing my degree and a couple of vendor certs, I got a job as a network engineer for a large UK company.

I spend most of my work day sitting in my underwear either on conference calls, emailing project managers to try and work out what they actually want, or filling out spreadsheets for network implementations. I spend a tiny fraction of my time actually working on networks. Pays well though, and it's so much better than my previous support/troubleshooting jobs

Yes. Don't care if you get the job or not.

I work in manufacturing now for £20k a year.
I'm glad i left IT.

24 year old boomer btw

Why is that user?

Taught myself how to code in my late 20s. Got first software job at 32 - web dev. Job was with the US subsidiary of a European company, I got it through a friend of a friend. I live in San Francisco, though. After 3 years of my working there, the US subsidiary shut down and I became unemployed. Spent the last four months being recruited over LinkedIn, did loads of various off-site interviews and about 6 on-site interviews but no offers. Sometimes I flunked the architecture and/or algorithm questions, other times I'm not sure why I didn't get hired.
Now I'm broke. Fugg. I'm thinking maybe the competition is too stiff around SF and I need to move elsewhere. Not sure. Am trying to get gud but I gotta put bread on the table in the meanwhile.

Can you live on £20k? You could earn at least twice that much in IT

Applied to 6 places only last week (after sitting on my ass for 3 weeks, destressing from my last shitshow). Seemed like id match them all by their description, but who knows anymore.

Im hoping to work a government IT job, so I can at least get benefits and holidays. And no small companies ever again. Smalltime Boomer shitshow CEOs are seriously the worst unprofessional, lying, greedy, hack-frauds.

here. I'm on £38k (just got a raise) and for the first time in a long time I feel reasonably secure and comfortable. I still don't have very much disposable income after rent, utilities, food, council tax and loan repayments. But I can afford to buy the occasional nice thing, socialise once or twice a month, and not have to subsist on out of date food from the reduced section.

£20k is above the UK living wage, but as someone who earned just below that for a depressingly long time, it's not much of a life.

You need friends for job

Easy

Doing a CS phd. Pretty happy with it, I get to do things the way I see fit, and in norway the wage is pretty good. A lot of programming in uncharted territory which I really enjoy

>job application requires me to take a personality test before letting me take a performance test and an interview
>personality test is full of questions like "are you more observant than the average person", "are you a natural leader", etc.
>try to answer somwhat truthfully instead of just making myself into a superhuman
>my application gets denied

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I'm stuck in uni hell because I'm a lazy piece of shit. The classes I still have to take are so fucking boring that I just can't... honestly. If only I could find a job/internship here, that would be great. But there's nothing in this god forsaken town. I've been doing a few jobs on Upwork to make some money, but I can barely make a living out of it (and I'm living in a 3rd world shithole). I'm also always working on a couple of personal projects to keep my Github active. But this is not good enough for me.

I'm running out of patience. I'm about to drop out, pack my things and move to a bigger city. Try to find a job there and maybe finish my CS degree over there as well. But I'd be giving up on a free college degree. And I fear that no one would hire me without this useless piece of paper in spite of my (somewhat limited) experience.

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>just be honest with your responses :^)

i am a "hobbyist" and never actually tried
i doubt i'll ever make it anyway, without the sacred piece of cs degree paper

why are there so many fucking failures on Jow Forums when this place is perhaps the most creative website in the history of the internet? we started internet culture, we build video games like minecraft and we got trump in the white house by being the only large discussion website to be pro-trump.

What area of research?

Yes.
I have a laptop, a phone, a pc, a car, all my bills are up to date. I have money to go out with friends. Rent is only £450pm.

The stress of being desktop/network support was killing me. My plan is to go to uni to do ME and become an engineer for ~30k starting as a graduate.

There are only outsiders and outlaws on Jow Forums.

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Unconventional computing. Specifically I'm creating a system that uses reservoir computing to harness living neural tissue as a classifier for sensor data. It's a lot of plumbing though, and lab software that is beyond shit. My current system is a scala backend talking over network to a C# server which interfaces to lab equipment written in C (the C and C# stuff is necessary due to vendor incompetence).

Pic related, neural tissue on an electrode array

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>we got trump in the white house by being the only large discussion website to be pro-trump.
>we got trump in the white house by being the only large discussion website to be pro-trump.

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Wew, was supposed to say
>why are there so many fucking failures on Jow Forums
>we got trump in the white house by being the only large discussion website to be pro-trump.

You were supposed to go back 2 redditl

Making derivative memes and shitposting is really stretching the definition of creativity. Jow Forums ceased being a source of genuinely original content around 2010. Facebook got trump elected.

Who are all undergad level students, some master interested in web forums. Surely there is some level of intelligence required for reading through Jow Forums?
I'm willing to bet most people who go on Jow Forums nowadays don't even go past the front page or read the thread in its entirety and are underage millenials (or boomers as I like to call them).

Some people might not even post on Jow Forums because there is an inequity of board posts (/v/ being the largest) and unique visitors to Jow Forums.
Sure, Jow Forums might be a meme factory but there are a few funny jokes here and there. Did you know you can tell the age of a poster by the pop culture they post? So when I see the carlos meme that poster is likely a millennial. .

>Surely there is some level of intelligence required for reading through Jow Forums?

mate give me the money first. please. lets get in touch

>being honest on an interview
shiggy diggy

Well there is if you want to argue about it. Most socially adjusted people wouldn't understand the tone coming from a greentext that is almost condescending like yours and even if they could, they wouldn't want to be here and withstand the verbal abuse as a (gasp!) anonymous person!

>personality test with questions like "are you useless or not"

I suppose its only purpose is to weed out complete idiots like you

user I bet you don't even have a job

you bet wrong

>Most socially adjusted people wouldn't understand the tone
they would
as soon as they knew what greentext does

stop derailing the thread

millennials are aged 21-36, so the older end of that range is pretty much golden era Jow Forums. It's not that there are less creative people making cool shit, it's just that they have been lost in the torrent of fucktards that have infested almost every last sanctuary that we had from them online.

Then tell me your technology related job, if you have one? And no, dream jobs don't count

i'm a java/python developer working on enterprise saas bollocks

I'm not entirely sure what you are looking for here

This but CS

Got my first ever real job at 25 (only months away from being 26) except for a small gig at the university

Just have a COMPLETED degree, learn to embellish yourself a little bit and be able to uphold a normal conversation and you will get a job

There's no point in not derailing because its all r9k shit anyways. Nobody's doing anything exciting or has the enthusiasm to share stories about their job. I don't have a job but I know how to program, so I can't contribute anyways. How about you share what you do for a living?
I agree with your statement on millennials but the term is often misused here, by millennials/gen x themselves.
>It's not that there are less creative people making cool shit, it's just that they have been lost in the torrent of fucktards that have infested almost every last sanctuary that we had from them online.
Then the only question remains is why did Jow Forums get popular with the in-crowd?

Sounds boring, I'd rather be a NEET than be you

okay lad

>t.

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>jr consultant to consultant to business development with a select group of individuals
>all within 1 year
>asked for raise (60k to 70k base salary) which will most likely go through based on my responsibility and track record of improving customer relations and standardization

Lol i dont even know how tf i got here. Its like I jumped over what most people spend several years working towards. Im not even good at my job.

I had to do an IQ, probemsolving and personality test at my current job.

It feels good not having to work with too many idiots. The "dumb" people are all people that was absorbed through acqusitions.

lab tech internship

you could spend time getting good instead of living a life of lies.