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

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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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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:


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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


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