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Figure out what you're good at and get a job doing that.

It doesn't sound like SWE is the right career for you. There are tons of opportunities for people who are tech-savvy but not hardcore developers. It's a lot more likely that one of those jobs will make you a lot happier and fulfilled.

Maybe you're good at communicating or have domain expertise. You can work in tech sales, product management, tech marketing, etc.

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People have very successful programming careers, without being able to apply dynamic programming to a made up problem which very rarely turns up in real world code.

Being good at writing tests, writing clear code and DDD is far more useful than dp for most companies problems.

Or just do coding in a place like a bank, where domain knowledge (that you build up over years) is very highly valued, as the problems (requirements) are often hopelessly complicated and anyone who shows signs of understanding them is valuable. The act of coding itself is often almost an afterthought.

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