Title + I already have two degrees from social science fields, but sadly I'm not diverse enough/too white to actually break into upper echelon jobs, or even entry level non-profit positions. Essentially I can grind it out for twenty years and hope to hit 80k in 2040, or I could just realize I'm gonna switch up my career and go into something profitable. Right now, I've gotten job offers from organizations, mostly government, in the low 40s high 30s. I've done some simple coding in the past, but realized two things.
I'm not really able to grasp topics on my own outside of a classroom environment if I'm not addicted to the material, like I am to policy and politics. I'm not looking to be babied but simultaneously recognize the need for some form of structure and obligation format for the basics. Overall, it's been pretty overwhelming for me.
I get a thrill off of building things, and enjoy my accomplishments, and sometimes the process when it comes to the basic stuff. Overall, I find coding interesting, but I'm not an neurodivergent r-slur who thinks in cs terms naturally.
Does anyone have any comments or advice? I'm only applying, will prob make a more committed decision in March when I hear back from other government positions.
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yeah keep yourself safe
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I'm usually pretty safe, thank you for the well wishes.
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you're not too white you're just too r-slurred
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True, if I got scammed by getting two degrees in social science, I may be too dumb to be a codecel. But seeing people like you gives me hope that one day, I took will be just as dumb as you. :)
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I freely admit, I got scammed. That grift game was strong. Now I can go whole hog and go from griftee to grifter, or just end the cycle here.
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If you want actual advice I would just take those shitty paying jobs and once you have 1 or 2 years of experience then apply to better jobs. In the meantime you can still learn on the job and outside of work if you are self motivated, but given you are pulling the victim card, I doubt it
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I found little of what I learned in college applied to the actual job. If ur gonna get a degree for your resume do it cheap. Maybe that will be different if you haven't coded as a past time before. For actual work like experience do personal projects. Game dev if you cant think of anything else to do. And then contribute to some open source project. Put the open source contributions on your resume and then get good at leetcode if you want to tryhard for a job at a major high paying company or dont if ur fine making less at some unknown company.
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Yeah, I was working on a personal project and it dawned on me I just didn't have the ability to comprehend most of what I was seeing by myself. At first I leaned on some friends, but I realized that was bothersome to them. Took up a lot of their time and I was being inconsiderate.
So overall, yes I can do it for cheap, and I have some ideas for personal projects. I appreciate your advice.
If you have any other suggestions or things you learned on your journey, please share. :)
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At my level the majority of my job is bug fixing/adding features to existing large codebases. Once you have some knowledge I highly suggest doing some new person friendly work on open source github projects. That's very similar to the actual job experience.
Also get a decent level of competence with one language so if you need to do something you always can. But learn others too. And make sure you are familiar with very different languages so you don't get overwhelmed when switching from C++ to python for example. It is very likely you will be expected to quickly pick up new languages and cowtools on the fly.
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you can probably do a lot of the basic courses for much cheaper at a community college. They're all the same braindead classes for the basics, you pretty much have to be able to type, logically reason, and learn syntax.
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That's pretty much what I'm doing. It's a large school that's primarily commuter with low tuition. I was planning on working and taking night classes, courses are already pretty cheap and I have residency already. I also have most of the credits for Gen Ed, and wouldn't have to repeat any classes. Really it would just be some math to start me up plus some basic courses. I have 1/4-1/3 the degree finished as it is just from Gen Ed stuff. I figured that if I wanted a four year degree in CS ever, this would be the best and cheapest way to do it.
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Good stuff, good luck with that!
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Thanks friend, I appreciate it.
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Is that what you think of community college? That it's filled with braindead classes? If that's the case, then maybe you shouldn't have chosen to go to a university. Universities are filled with challenging classes that require more than just the ability to type, reason, and learn syntax. So maybe you should have gone to a community college if all you're looking for are easy, braindead classes.
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Don't put words in my mouth, you harlot. I'm saying that intro programming courses are simply ninnyhammer filters. Use the brain that god should have given you or get back in the kitchen.
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I think you're the ninnyhammer, not the intro programming courses. And I'm not a harlot, I'm a programmer. And I'm not going back to the kitchen, so you can just shove your misogynistic bullshit up your butt.
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If you like building shit look in to automation. If you learn ansible and terraform you could easily get a job that pays like double what the govt is offering. You don't have to go to school for it and you'll deal with fewer neurodivergents than if you do real coding.
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I have never heard of these things. Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at it. I have some downtime till after the holidays. Thanks friend.
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For ages I've heard nonstop jokes in media, on the internet, and from others that make it seem like having a small peepee is somehow a death sentence or makes for some unbearable existence. I disagree. I have what I'd take to be a rather small member, probably no more than 4 inches when erect, and when flaccid, I get that epic Greek statue look.
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