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Re: Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible

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Post by gargarplex »

lewisl9029 wrote: post #35
hoboon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did that last year. No bootcamp guarantees placement.

Try something like this? http://www.appacademy.io/#p-home JavaScript/Ruby are very employable skills and there's no shortage of places that need them. If you have the time, I'd give it a try since there's nothing to lose (you don't pay them if you don't get a job).

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that OP probably doesn't have the appropriate cognitive disposition for programming as a career.

He referred to himself as normal; software programmers as a group have an IQ metric well above normal. BY NO MEANS am I suggesting that he is not smart; in fact, he should trust his feelings even more. Just because he is not a desirable programmer does not mean that he isn't welcomed by the tech community and industry; this thread is clear evidence of that.

There are many lucrative roles in tech that do not rely on programming as a primary activity.

Re: Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible

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Post by hitsurume »

hoboon wrote: post #11
gargarplex wrote: post #6

Join a developer bootcamp with a guaranteed junior-developer placement program

Did that last year. No bootcamp guarantees placement.

What bootcamp did you take? How did it go and what did you learn? Can you share us examples of projects you did during this bootcamp? Where are you located? It does sound like you might be clinically depressed and should seek treatment for that. Otherwise you might have to just take a break from doing programming jobs and just apply to any related type job such as QA and work your way back into dev. As you stated your years of experience havn't helped you in the interview process and most dev interviews weed out weak candidates pretty quickly.

Re: Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible

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Post by smartera »

fhoxh wrote: post #25

Hoboon, I invite you to step out of yourself for just a moment. Position your perspective within someone else of your choosing; a co-worker, a manager, an interviewer. Read both the post from today and the one from several months back. Ignore the particular details of the narrative itself. Instead, see what you can pick up on, sense, about the _author_ of the narrative. Then, observe how, what you sensed about the au…

Thank you, I hope this is as enlightening to the OP as it was for me!

Re: Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible

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Post by Bahamut »

This sounds like you are depressed - please see a counselor, for your own good.

The road to being a successful software engineer is paved with failure. I failed to get accepted to an Ivy League (or equivalent) for undergrad. I had a failed relationship affect my graduate studies and partly ended up dropping out of a prestigious PhD program in math as a result. It took me 2.5 years to find a first full time job afterwards. And yet, I became a senior frontend engineer in under 2 years despite my failures - the important part is that I maximized the lessons learned from all of my failures.

Failure is natural - what you do when faced with failure is what defines us.

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