• thevoidzero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    I love programming because it feels like magic.

    Couldn’t choose it as a major because everyone wanted it while I was going to college. It was too competitive.

    I still learned it, have fun making things. Helping others by making tools. Thought I could get a job in programming because “degree doesn’t matter”.

    Now the degree matters a lot because they have plenty with the degree, I think it didn’t matter in the beginning because there weren’t enough people. Now with AI, the people with degree aren’t finding jobs. So no way anyone hiring me.

    But because I love programming I still use it on my job. Making tools for clients and internal productivity. Basically working like a software engineer without a software engineer salary because I love it.

    So profit??? To the company?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🌀 🇳 🇦 🇸 🇰 🇦 🇵 🇮@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Making valuable things in a professional setting is resume material for climbing to the position you want. If you have some mobility to seek other jobs (at the same or a different company), be sure you’re looking for a role in a team where you can contribute with what you know while learning things from the others.

  • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 days ago

    I’m reminded of this girl I met in college, who was a print journalism major. She knew it was a dying field, but she loved it and was dead-set on riding it into the ground.

    Damn, thinning about it, her determination and humor as contributor to the student newspaper was hot!

  • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    7 days ago

    The version I stick by is “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you’ll start hating it”.

    • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Yup. I eventually found a job doing something that I don’t give a shit about, and turns out that’s the key to being happy at work, at least for me.

    • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
      171·
      7 days ago

      I followed my passion and on the days it’s too much I pause and think " Is there anything else I’d rather be doing" and the answer is ultimately no and I feel a bit better knowing that this is the best option

      • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        I’m really not sure…

        I got a burnout and I made my hobby to my job
        Now I’m not interested anymore to do fun things in my free time, because my hobby is my job and I’m fed up with it
        But I miss long nights in front of the computer, just quickly hacking together what interests me in the moment

        And…I just really miss it and am quite miserable because of it

  • ZMoney@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    7 days ago

    Forget majors, get a PhD. You’ll be even less hireable because companies won’t want to pay you more.

  • Dryad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    Or you’ll need at least 15 years of experience for the unpaid, entry level, 6-month-contract position.

  • arsCynic@piefed.socialEnglish
    81·
    7 days ago

    I choose major wealth redistribution by taxing the ultrarich out of existence.

    PS I had a liquid-shooting-out-of-nose-chuckle moment. Thanks.