therm0

why isn't it something you can just do from your machine? requires a lot of processing power?

>recently quit my dev job because it was also making me very mentally unhealthy.

What do you do now?

They're a lot more competitive too.

I don't know what to tell you man. I live in the South and I've interviewed at my fair share of IT cost centers. They tend to ask the same kinds of questions. The ones that don't end up paying $50k/yr for 60+ hour work weeks and treat their developers like dirt.

How do you do all this with family obligations, reliance on health insurance, and little fallback cash in the bank? This is a good idea for someone struggling to figure out what they want to do in college but a lot of us millennials who can't hack it on the coast are still paying down debt and are anchored to our situations.

Being a generalist doesn't get you a job though. I'm in a similar position to OP and, while I can figure out a problem given enough time and motivation, I can't adequately answer most interview questions and I fail most coding interviews. I don't know if I use ES5 or ES6 or whatever and I don't know the difference between Java 7 and Java 8 (8 has lambda expressions or something?) and I don't see why I need a wealth of experience in the latter in order to maintain a Java application. Before every interview I have to look up the difference between an interface and an abstract class because, while my brain knows when to use which, I can't explain it in concrete terms and I don't know the difference between the two across different languages. I can't explain DI and I have no fucking clue what a FactoryFactoryBean is because I've never had the need to write one so how am I supposed to have this experience? I don't have enough time to dig into the particulars of a language or its compiler/vm/interpreter or microservice design patterns and I'm sick of having to be passionate about programming outside of work in order to even stay employable. All of the jobs I've ever had have been through friend connections and that well's starting to dry up with the pandemic and all. I'm sorry for the frustration dump, but I've truly grown to fucking hate this field. I'd just quit and be a bartender or something if I didn't have tuition debt to repay.

>Are there existing solutions?

Adderall, Vyvanse, Concerta, etc.

not a founder, just an extremely stressed developer.

i used to smoke cigarettes and drink a lot. now i just bottle it up because i don't want lung cancer.

ad hoc networks

How much US debt does Ukraine hold? With the exception of China we don't even really heavily outsource to the 10 biggest buyers of our debt because they're mostly wealthy countries that can't be exploited. Japan owns nearly 10x as much of our debt as India does.

Only a couple companies listed by OP are Big Tech though. There are many American companies that do not operate outside the country, but do outsource work.

But why should I have to compete with developers of the same skill level who can afford to take a much, much lower salary than I can? Especially when I took out American debt to attend an American university so I can live in America and work an American software job.

Why is it so bad for American companies to hire American workers?