Not quite up to what was expected

This is like looking into a mirror, only without the formal sheepskin and the associated big-company gigs.

Hell, back when I started I would have had to move 5hrs away from home just to get a degree in CS, and into a region where one needed twice minimum wage just to live away from parents. And I just wasn’t that fantastically wealthy. So I tried to bootstrap myself into web dev close to home, did decently, but my neuroatypical brain just never cottoned on to making any professional connections, either.

Networks are just so immensely difficult and laborious to maintain, in ways a normie is likely to never be able to fully understand. I can code for a solid 10-12hrs a day for days on end, zero problems even into my sixth decade on this rock. But even an hour’s worth of networking has me absolutely knackered for the next 24. If I could outsource my world+dog professional interactions in a reliable manner that faithfully reproduces my actual being, I absolutely would.

And there is just so much else with this article that strikes home, including whiteboard exercises in which the evaluators have totally lost the plot with why those even exist.

I swear, if I can’t find a way to build a SAAS or some other personal income stream, imma gonna put my woodworking skills to more profitable use.