I’m probably going to cop a few downvotes for this, but in my whole career the only software engineers I ever met who were worth a damn were people who loved it for its own sake, and would be doing it regardless. So, if your feelings about the field are such that you’re thinking you might be better off doing a trade, you’d definitely be better off doing a trade.
Good luck either way.
The comments section of the LinkedIn post I saw about this, has ten times the cope of some of the AI bro posts in here. I had to log out before I accidentally replied to one.
Yeah, I imagine it’s quite cosy being able to live that lifestyle if things are going well, and you have the option of bailing as soon as things don’t go your way.
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This is what they call the exception proving the rule; you think you’ve countered them, but by explaining that it’s literally one of three army surplus shops you have to go to and not just the local Wal-Mart equivalent (EDIT: or whatever clothing store, the size of the chain isn’t relevant), you’ve proven their point quite well.
See also the entire American Indochina war, where they tried to bomb Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos into being friends with them
The moment I saw the title and thumbnail I KNEW that OP would have deliberately made at least one mistake in order to gin up engagement. The internet sucks now and I hate OP
Same here. It’s popular to rag on leetcode-style technical interviews, and yet it’s astonishing how many CS grads with 3 years experience we get in who can’t seem to get through even the most basic “reverse this array”, “find the longest substring” type questions in the language they claim to be strongest in.
People sign up for CS degrees because they see high salaries, but don’t realize those salaries are for the high achievers who have been coding since the age of 10 and are writing code for fun in the evenings as well. Then they flood the market, only to discover that no companies have need of someone who cheesed their way through college, have never written more than a few hundred lines of code their whole life, and have no useful skills to offer.