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Your story is heartening. I wish it would work for me. Nothing really makes me happy or interested. I could lay in bed all day if I didn't force myself to get out. I think it's gre…

Did that last year. No bootcamp guarantees placement.

> That is called learning. I get the tripe of what you mean, but perhaps I fail at failing, then. I don't really learn anything. Everything I do is wrong, I'm told. I wish antidepr…

I don't know what my pay grade is, or how to feature the data I get. I do ask for feedback from interviewers; they usually don't response. When they do, I get conflicting answers.

C/C++, learning python, ruby over the lst couple of years. Been working for several years, graduated with bachelors from a cow college no one has heard of. bug fixing. that's all i…

hi, hn. I know I posted before...but I feel like my situation is the same or worse. I'm trying, I really am. I keep trying and failing. I am sincerely worried that my career as a s…

It's a good interactive method to constantly challenge yourself into remembering and learning material. Basically, what you're supposed to do when you're actively reading material.…

> Go solo. At 40 you should be experienced enough to handle up to mid-sized projects, alone and on a reasonable time-frame. Try to pick projects that your clients will actually use…

This is fantastic, and makes me hopeful. I'm almost 40 and no real career accomplishments but there's still time for me, maybe, before I just decide to hang it up and just go home.…

You're right. I talk about this often. I'm going a little crazy, and maybe angry.

> I think the best way to get over that is to make something on your own that is so great that everyone wants to hire you without even doing an interview! This is a good idea. I ha…

I wonder if it's common or I am just unlucky or unskilled... I've been out of work for 11 months. I've been on a large number of interviews and it seems like after that many failed…

Highly recommend people apply for this company. I interviewed here and while I didn't quite make it, they're a good group with an interesting embedded/hw product and backend.

These are very good points. It's what I tried but it seems like I never met anyone. Just keep at it, I guess.

I'm not OP but how do you find work/clients/projects? I saw a posting earlier that had some suggestions.

I like tptacek's list but I'm wondering about how to get clients. tirrellp makes a good point, though. I guess that's how?

> I'm guessing you are someone who does not enjoy programming? Did your parents pressure you to take it up to have a well paying job? I do like programming, and I can at least empa…

I've noticed people will look at it if you really have their attention, say an employer who is inclined to give you a job. Having a site talk about requirements is useful. A lot of…

> I got rid of my cell phone and got rid of internet service at my house. I've been wondering about doing something similar.

>cool friends, lovely girlfriend. I don't have any of those.

This is how I feel. I don't watch TV for hours like I did as a child. What I do now is worse; stay in doors programming, browsing the web aimlessly, or staring at the ceiling. I do…

> I use wget for plain, old regular downloads a lot. I loved wget for that. what are your options? Mine was always -r -p -k -nH --cut-dirs=2 -np

I would figure that by 1997 most people stopped using gopher/archive/veronica. I think I stopped by 1995 or so. now days we use curl/wget for web dev it seems? probably used it for…

I interviewed with these guys a few years ago. Nice people, good people. I don't have a web background but they gave me a fighting chance anyways. I wish them the best.