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Anyway, can you give me a hand and ban me instead? Your help is much appreciated!
Yes, especially when it's a certain minority of "modern" society that determines those needs for the society as a whole. I can assure you billionaires won't be eating bugs.
First, don't give up and pick up areas in the industry that require people to actually be innovative and not be cogs in the machine. To me those areas are machine learning and blockchain development. I've dabbled in both, and figured I like the latter better. It's got a ton of hype and bullshit (machine learning has that too), but you are nowhere being a fungible developer.
> Nearing my 40s, so my profile is less appealing to employers, this field is very oriented to young people.
That applies only to webpack/react/graphql bullshit jobs. You should have figured out by now not to do those.
Another important advice - get your physical body in order. That should be your number one priority. Give up addictions (alcohol, drugs), get in shape, get strong!
It's not easy, but it gets better. Remember, when you are going through hell, keep going!
Your site, your data, your source control and your project (wiki, issues, forum, chat) in a single binary and a single file. Can it get any better!
I also believe squats and deadlifts heal back pain faster than the fancy chairs that get shilled on this site too. :)
And I mean nothing special here. Just grabbing heavy pieces of iron, lifting them up, putting them down.
I wish I was making this up... https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/inside-israel-s-decision...
Compared to what? GUI programming has always been hard on all platforms I tried.
That is why it isn't the year of the custom car yet. That person is clearly a part of the problem!
1. In many countries $6500 is enough to start a business. I'd rather do that than pay for an overpriced piece of aluminum with a piece of fruit etched on one of the sides. What if I'm not the business type? That's fine. It's still probably better to save that money.
2. Modern computing is turning into a dumpster fire. It will be pretty soon that the Intel platform will work in the same way as the above-mentioned fruitty platform and you won't be able to run whatever software you want on it. While I agree OP is probably making his life extra miserable [1], I admire people like him, since their efforts will give us the next free/fun computing platform.
[1] I too run a Raspberry Pi at home, but I've long given up on turning it into a desktop machine. There is an easier way to run modern software on cheap hardware with a fraction of the hassle.
I think that's what I meant by aligning personal projects with career ones. I have no problem with this type of work.
I just wanted to bring up the point of making sure you're not being taken advantage of.
> Not everyone can start a side project or business at 22.
It depends on the project. There is no need for it to be a new business or a groundbreaking open source project. You can be a junior web developer that learns more about SQL and the PostgreSQL internals. Or packages your app with Docker, improves CI pipelines and/or runs it in k8s. Those types of projects get you hugely successful at your job while raising your programmer market value.
People should spend their time working for themselves. That could be building new skills, developing your personal brand, starting projects/businesses, etc.
Bonus points for aligning personal benefit projects with your career, so you can develop yourself while being a team player and an esteemed colleague.