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Why is it so hard to become a successful developer

17 pointsSeason_prog5 comments

define successful? to me gainfully employed is a pretty successful developer.

    #ifndef SUCCESSFUL_H_
    #define SUCCESSFUL_H_ 1
    #ifdef __cplusplus
    extern "C" {
    #endif
    int will_code_for_awesome_benefits(void);
    #ifdef __cplusplus
    }
    #endif
    #endif /* SUCCESSFUL_H_ */

I guess the OP implies there’s a difference between a contractor making say, $45k USD/yr, with an unsteady existence of temporary work and an SA/SWE-SRE/TPM/SRM at Alphabet making $325k/yr in a fairly-cushy, mostly certain job with full-time benefits.

Fundamentally, because we are judgemental and this is the only industry where experience is a bad thing.

As soon as you slide out of the expected norms of the group, you're dogshit. Those norms including--dress, age, ability to binge drink, working 70 hour weeks...

God forbid you not spend your weekend learning the latest JS framework.

Little bitter? too bad I 100% whole hardly agree. Going from single to married with kids changed my views on a lot of society and coding in particular.

Yea, I suppose I am bitter. When I had my first child, my employer tried to see how much abuse I'd take because they knew I was the only wage earner for my family.

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