Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's next?

Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by zaccus on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:16PM (#15510231)

100% agree. I hated it. It was expensive, stressful, and unrewarding.

My loans won't be paid off until I'm in my mid 40s. I feel like a sucker who fell for a scam. It's objectively the biggest mistake I ever made.

I'm sure my perspective will be soundly dismissed on HN. I'm sure I must have done college "wrong" or something. Whatever. I'm not trying to blame anyone else. My choices seemed like good ones at the time; these things are only clear in retrospect.

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Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by akulbe on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:27PM (#15518540)

I completely agree with you, and I'm in my mid-40's still paying off college debt for a degree that hasn't helped. (I was a business management major)

Unless, you're going to be a doctor/lawyer/engineer/$FIELD_THAT_REQUIRES_LICENSING... then college is a scam, and a waste of time and money.

Don't be fooled, education != college. You CAN get educated for much less, in MANY other ways, for much less money (if not free).

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Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by amorphid on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:58PM (#15519063)

I'm in my 40s and still paying off the debt incurred to get 2 business degrees. Maybe the advice should be "don't major in business!" :P

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Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by akulbe on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:35PM (#15519264)

I'd say >95% of the material covered in my business track could have been learned by reading "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman. If only it had been around when I started.

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Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by vong on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:28AM (#15514316)

Where / what did you study? Asking because I'm half curious and half astonished that college can cost so much (coming from someone outside of the US).

Felt like I did college wrong too, and it cost 4 years and ~22k USD, in return for .. nothing much really.

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Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by speedplane on Thursday October 26, 2017 @06:46AM (#15557731)

Ha... 22k USD? You got off easy. Four years at a private college in the US can easily top 150k.

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Re:Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's... by jsjohnst on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:48PM (#15511415)

I don’t normally reply on Ask HN threads, but just wanted to say I know what you mean and agree.

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