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So I learned to code... (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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... and now I'm job-hunting in earnest and jfcsstrrssfgchujbgfryhgftyhgerswww. I hope this is the right place to vent about this sort of thing, but I'm feeling so incredibly stressed and frustrated because I really want to change careers (TEFL teaching is a dead end, and the conditions have got so much worse in recent years) and I know I could do a junior frontend job perfectly well — I've put so much with into getting good at it in my own time — but it's beginning to dawn on me that there's basically no way in to the industry unless you know someone who can help you get a foot in the door.

I don't know where I'm going with this tbh — I just needed to vent somewhere — but it would be nice to hear any advice anyone can offer, or even just the lamentations of anyone with similar experiences...

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm working through a cybersecurity degree right now and honestly I sometimes question the point, it looks like tech is just dead, and I doubt with the west's decline it's gonna get any better. Same with the housing market.

Sorry to vent I guess, but weirdly I've been feeling less doomer about the world overall lately, but more doomer in terms of my personal life. Like, I actually have some faith humanity is going to pull through this, but I think things are pretty fucked for me where I am now and I don't really know what to do about it, maybe I should just go full Crust Punk and learn the play the banjo for wine cooler money shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

cybersecurity degree

it is very, very hard to make an honest living in this field

if you have to work for evil, make sure to be bad at your job

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeahhhhh, so many opportunities are with the government. Thankfully some are with the less evil parts of it, like I actually applied for an internship with the unemployment office which I guess isn't directly involved in much evil. But idk maybe that underwear company will get back to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The employment office is evil in the reasons they use to deny people benefits

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Could do some good in that role by flipping some rejections into approvals. Have a little "glitch" that just happens to help people. Just don't get caught!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Its sadly either an IT degree with an emphasis in looking at PCAPs and hardening servers, or its doing nationstate level hacking. For the latter, the degree doesn't do much unless you do a TON of hacking shit in your free time and teach yourself to dream in assembly.