How To Live The New American Dream
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How To Live The New American Dream
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#3So, this is what the programming equivalent of "Mom in X learns $5 trick to remove wrinkles"?
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#4Is this some sort of ad for Codecademy? It seems like it, and not a very good one at that.
The sidebar says "Codecademy can teach you the skills you need to get a solid, well-paying technical job."
The article says "And after 800 hours of hard work, Liz has just been hired full-time as an Administrative Coordinator at the University of Washington, where the skills she honed in Codecademy will be central to her success."
What?
Nothing against dear Liz, but an Administrative Coordinator position probably has very little programming involved. Guessing by the title, it sure doesn't sound like her 800 hours of hard work landed her a "well-paying technical job." It sounds like she's a middle-aged office clerk with a pockmarked resume.
Oh, and Liz: please stop applying to companies who have rejected you "hundreds of times before." You're wasting their time and yours.
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#5Is this really the new American Dream?
"work as hard as you possibly can, and you will be able to raise a family"
That is an enormous come down.
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#6Is this some sort of ad for Codecademy? It seems like it, and not a very good one at that. The sidebar says "Codecademy can teach you the skills you need to get a solid, well-paying technical job." The article says "And after 800 hours of hard work, Liz has just been hired full-time as an Administrative Coordinator at the University of Washington, where the skills she honed in Codecademy will be central to her succes…
So I actually don't work for Codecademy, and Liz's job allows her to support her husband and son. She's not an office clerk, and her job does in fact mostly rest on her technical ability with Java and PHP. They hired her because she was the most skilled person. So ... yeah.
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#7Is this some sort of ad for Codecademy? It seems like it, and not a very good one at that. The sidebar says "Codecademy can teach you the skills you need to get a solid, well-paying technical job." The article says "And after 800 hours of hard work, Liz has just been hired full-time as an Administrative Coordinator at the University of Washington, where the skills she honed in Codecademy will be central to her succes…
Yes, it's an ad. Stuff like this isn't new either, when MCSEs were all the rage in the late 90s/early 2000s TVs were playing ads about garbage collection workers who now earn $100,000 a year as "computer engineers".
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#8Is this really the new American Dream? "work as hard as you possibly can, and you will be able to raise a family" That is an enormous come down.
Sounds more like an American Nightmare. Geesh.
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#9Is this some sort of ad for Codecademy? It seems like it, and not a very good one at that. The sidebar says "Codecademy can teach you the skills you need to get a solid, well-paying technical job." The article says "And after 800 hours of hard work, Liz has just been hired full-time as an Administrative Coordinator at the University of Washington, where the skills she honed in Codecademy will be central to her succes…
So I actually don't work for Codecademy, and Liz's job allows her to support her husband and son. She's not an office clerk, and her job does in fact mostly rest on her technical ability with Java and PHP. They hired her because she was the most skilled person. So ... yeah.
You don't work for Codecademy , you were just found the parent comment so compelling you had to sign up a HN account just to reply to it?
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#10Is this some sort of ad for Codecademy? It seems like it, and not a very good one at that. The sidebar says "Codecademy can teach you the skills you need to get a solid, well-paying technical job." The article says "And after 800 hours of hard work, Liz has just been hired full-time as an Administrative Coordinator at the University of Washington, where the skills she honed in Codecademy will be central to her succes…
So I actually don't work for Codecademy, and Liz's job allows her to support her husband and son. She's not an office clerk, and her job does in fact mostly rest on her technical ability with Java and PHP. They hired her because she was the most skilled person. So ... yeah.
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