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I’m 22 and I’ve failed
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Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#12You've not failed. You're 22. You probably know as much as any graduate does. There are companies out there who don't put a lot of emphasis on a degree. A degree is a good filter, but that's it. You have good programmers with a degree and you have people who really make you wonder how they got a degree. I'd recommend not exclusively looking for jobs through job seeking websites but instead email directly as an enquir…
Why would you say upfront that you don't have a degree? That's not wise IMO. If they ask, sure, don't lie. But better avoid that question and sell yourself without focusing on issues. And when you're sold, got work offer, now they won't really care.
Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#13I don't know anyone who wants a job for its own sake. Maybe there are some people desperate to eat and so will think a job is essential but what you really want is freedom. Money facilitates that freedom and a job is the poorest way to get it so don't feel bad that you had fun coding.
Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#14You've not failed. You're 22. You probably know as much as any graduate does. There are companies out there who don't put a lot of emphasis on a degree. A degree is a good filter, but that's it. You have good programmers with a degree and you have people who really make you wonder how they got a degree. I'd recommend not exclusively looking for jobs through job seeking websites but instead email directly as an enquir…
> You probably know as much as any graduate does.
Does not sound like it:
> They were right in a way, all these years all I was doing was having fun, I wasn't prepared for a job.
Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#15This blogpost shows that good writing is honest writing, and this post felt brutally honest.
Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#16Picking an arts degree wasn't you first mistake. It was a consequence of earlier mistakes.
Your mistake was thinking you could go into, say, a CS degree and have nothing to learn. I'm sure if you did a 100 Intro to Programming course you'd breeze through it but programming != CS.
The worst thing you can do in college, at a job or even in life is to go into a situation thinking you have nothing to learn. That's just a recipe for being in exactly the same place 10 years from now. Do you really think your professors, your future colleagues or even your fellow students have nothing to teach you?
Even if they don't, you're alienating and isolating yourself by dismissing other people so flippantly. That alone will deny you mentors and friends.
I can't speak to what you do now because so much of this depends on circumstances eg where you live, what your financial situation is, etc. But 22 years old is not by any measure too late to turn things around. You may have to make some uncomfortable choices (eg working a shitty help desk job while studying part time) but the only limit here is whatever mental barricades you erect for yourself.
Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#17Failing is part of an interesting life. Obviously, it sucks at the time, but you gain a lot out of it. Read atomic habits and don't be hard on yourself.
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#18Hey, I'm 22 and 'failing' too! Let's talk, hit me up thru my username + ".com/about"
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#19Advice from fellow college grad: stick to whatever you find less irritating. In last 6 years I've jumped from Android development to ML to backend on Elixir. You got it!
Re: I’m 22 and I’ve failed
#20I don't know anyone who wants a job for its own sake. Maybe there are some people desperate to eat and so will think a job is essential but what you really want is freedom. Money facilitates that freedom and a job is the poorest way to get it so don't feel bad that you had fun coding.
* Maybe there are some people desperate to eat and so will think a job is essential
Maybe? I feel like this describes virtually every living human being. Only the most fortunate of the most fortunate have the luxury of not struggling for survival.