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I feel like I wasted a year of my life learning programming. [261 points, 64% upsorened, 365 comments, deletemaxxxed]

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Have you ever tried to find a job and be an employee, rather than start business? So finding clients and work would not be your duty.

It seems to me that you never have an interest in programming to begin with and learn it because it was a prerequisite for X. Like earning money, or finding a job, or whatever you wanted to do.

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Sorry, but what you say deeply concerns me.

You built an ecommerce site with less than a single year experience, and try to sell it for $60.

That's two red flags: ... :marseylongpost2:

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So you can’t freelance yet. So what? Get a job. Also don’t compare yourself to girls making explicit content, they aren’t doing “nothing”, that’s incel talk. Who cares what other people are doing

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Let's be honest, what they're doing isn't skilled, nor do you have to be an incel to realise that 😂

They legit brag about their 'work' being easy [-38]

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I like how you're struggling and the first thing you do is start attacking females who make money and literally have nothing to do with you. Nice job.

Bruh that wasn’t how I meant it at all, I’m not attacking “females who make money and have nothing to do with you”, im jealous of “prostitutes who make money much easier than others”.

Like I wish it were that easy for me, i was venting. Man i wish I used something like “rappers who get big out of nowhere” or “artists who sell a random painting and get millions of dollars” that way people wouldn’t think I hate women because of some irrational thought process. [-5]

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Wow, a whole year.

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You can become an expert in most fields within a year, 99% of the competition is always r-slurred.

I only spent a year seriously lifting, just cruise on maintenance calories and 20 sets a week now. That year ade me the most Shredded/looksmaxxed drama poster.

Reddit programmer spending a year actually studying can out-code his r-slurred :!marseytrain: competition.

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You can't become an expert synthetic organic chemist in a year, or an expert ballerina in a year, or an expert radiologist in a year, or an expert running back in a year.

Most expertises require multiple years of education and training and practicing and developing.

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yeah frick I wasted so many classes/lectures ignoring whatever the subject was and trying to learn pen flip-tricks https://i.rdrama.net/images/16808361276430705.webp

practiced for years and all I can do consistently is the basic flip https://i.rdrama.net/images/16808361285537055.webp and only when I'm not focusing on it and its muscle memory

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I can do that pen flip too, nice.


From my heart in ink still bleeding: have this comment. Thanks for reading.

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Thats still pretty cool :wow:

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You can become a decent webshitter in a year. The problem is that there's more security concerns that need to go into stuff like an e-commerce platform (gotta protect customer data above all else).

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Any expertise worth expertising is not easily expertisable.

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if you’re naturally athletic af you could be an RB no problem - it’s the least “skilled” nfl position

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Checks out. I was an RB in high school and the only reason I could get away with it is because I'm really fast.


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Keyword- naturally athletic. You need to be an extreme physical specimen to make it as an RB, and if you don't have the right genetics it's not going to happen

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Same thing with being a ballerina. Dude chose two examples of careers where maybe .01% of people will be able to make a living and it’s entirely genetic.

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This is a weird take. That's how junior programmers always talk. Every upstart 20yr old who has zero life experience thinks this way because they were the smartest kid in their elementary school and built some 2-bit web app that has 200 visitors, so they think they have what it takes to cut it on a team with real programmers. That's the textbook definition of a junior programmer perspective on life.

Even throwing around 'r-slurred :!marseytrain: competition' as a baseline doesn't help cuz the number of good jobs where that's the baseline aren't the jobs you'd ever want unless you want to play the diversity hire game.

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:#marseycopeseethedilate:

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My neighbor, you're shredded by rDrama standards.


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People IRL at my gym think I'm on gear.

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Planet fitness doesn't count


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Murdered

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I learned recently that you're not allowed to make noises lifting at Planet Fitness lmao


Krayon sexually assaulted his sister. https://i.rdrama.net/images/17118241526738973.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17118241426254768.webp

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U r a manlet

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Go sell your year of bodybuilding to a gym and become a personal trainer. Come back when you find out places want experience.

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could you spend a year getting taller?

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That year ade me the most Shredded/looksmaxxed drama poster.

You're comparing yourself to the general public here, most of whom will have no experience in whatever subject you're talking about. But when you are saying "expert within a field" you're comparing yourself to other people in a specific field, which is a vastly different thing.

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It’s possible the gym went too you're head. Also collectijism bet you’re horrible in bed

Detrans lives matter

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No wonder you look like shit darn

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Post physique

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Is this bait

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Click my physique posts, then you tell me.

:#marseysmug3:

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Lmao manlet cope

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Imagine when he enters the job markets, and realized 5 experience in 3 different languages is a minimum foran entry level job.

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oh no he learned to coode what a waste of time. should’ve spent 4 years on a useless college degree like a normal failure

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Reported by:

Learn to report

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Reported by:

reportmaxx?

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He should've just been useful. Coders are really not, they're just fricking dorks

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getting a job was too hard so he decided to try freelancing :marseylaugh:

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:mars#eytunaktunak: hello would you like to buy my spaghetti code e-commerce platform for $60?

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Only if all the databases with customer info are susceptible to SQLi attacks

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probably got sucked into the youtube "i taught myself x skill and started my own business to make a shitload of money instantly" hole

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>how do?

>make youtubeee vid :marseywallst:

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“I did everything wrong and it didn’t work waaaaaaaah”

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learn to chatgpt

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programming sucks because it's oversaturated as frick, how do people keep falling for the software engineering meme

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It's oversaturated with sexy Indian dudes that don't know how to code. Most of my peers barely know how a commandline works. One of them somehow fricked the git history up with GitHub desktop and I had to go fix it despite being a junior dev


Give me your money and I'll annoy people with it :space: https://i.rdrama.net/images/16965516366194396.webp

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I had a senior dev some weeks ago who was confused when I said “CA”, clarified I meant “Certificate Authority” and still didn’t know what I meant :marseyeyeroll:


Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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Who gives a shit about the git history? Ship something cute twink. At least you ain't lying about being a junior dev.

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Words can't describe how fricked up it was


Give me your money and I'll annoy people with it :space: https://i.rdrama.net/images/16965516366194396.webp

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It really isn’t. Most “programmers” can’t do fizzbuzz and spam clearly bullshit jobs. If you do the bare minimum of networking you can easily get a job that pays a median US salary.


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these "programmers" are still getting paid more than they're worth

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:marseyconfused: that seems at odds with your original comment.

It’s “oversaturated” in the sense there’s a lot of people who did six weeks at a boot camp but they’re easily filtered out by FizzBuzz.

Are you going to make six figs off the bat? No, especially without the money printer.

Can you make a decent salary if you’re a competent junior dev and can network? Yes, it’s a good way to middle class living.

All the reddit posts of people saying “I applied to 500 jobs and got 3 callbacks” are approaching it the wrong way entirely.


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Can't wait to listen to the weeping of programmercels especially the coping Dramautists in a couple of years once the transition to AI coders really starts taking off. 90% of these cute twinks will swiftly be replaced by bbbb and it is inevitable, no amount of cope can save them.

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once the transition to AI coders really starts taking off

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once the transition to AI coders really starts taking off

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if someone offered to build me a full ecommerce site for $60 I would have to assume I was being taken for a ride. He'd probably see a TINY bit more success if he boosted his price bc at that price point he's getting attention from 1) people who think he's a scammer and 2) the cheapest bitches alive, neither of which are going to be good customers

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An entire year and he didn't actually learn any useful languages

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