Wilson Wilson
Bluelighter
If you wanna be a programmer it sounds like there’s no decision. Go for your dreams and don’t look back anything else is fluffing or shiit
With programming yeah just learn a popular language employers are after (Python is one and easy to learn for beginners) then open a GitHub account and contribute to a few open source projects here and there, experiment with your own scripts and throw a few of those up there when they're all working too, write a decent readme to explain what it does and how, and basically go from there and start putting it on your CV.
What I'm doing right now is getting certified as a cloud architect, paid for by my employer, because my boss's boss is pushing to get me a promotion into the cloud department.
You can be forgiven for not knowing what the fuck "cloud architect" means... basically what it means is setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting hypervisors, VMs, and the stacks running on top of them. Mostly it's about understanding the underlying hypervisors because that's complex shit. But basically for example a lot of cloud services use the Xen hypervisor on their servers, deploy Linux as a VM many many times on each server, and one of those VM's is your "server." You pay a different price usually for how much compute power is allocated to your VM and how much traffic goes to and from it. All regular consumer grade web hosts do this. At the enterprise level they tend to focus more on pay-as-you-go compute power and bandwidth (this is the AWS model the rest of the industry are playing catch up with) and a big company will usually rent at least one whole physical server but run it the same way because it's efficient (instead of say three servers you can have one server with three VM's each acting as if they're separate machines). So I'm learning it on a much bigger scale, like how the kind of cloud services Netflix use to run everything they do.
Anyway what it really means is £70k starting salary that's what it really fucking means. Watch the guy in his early 20's who flunked out of uni make £70k while the peeps who graduated uni and slyly judge him suddenly decide they wanna be mates again because that mentally ill druggie dropout is almost on six figures already while their history degree is worth precisely fuck all in the real world and their salaries as teachers, the only actual job you can get with a degree like that - and what a stressful, hard working, extremely underpaid job it is - are less than what I'm already making right now while they train me. But that's just a coincidence of course nah nah they just wanna catch up and see how I'm doing yeah... cuz we were so close before yeah yeah yeah... one day they just happened to be like how is Wilson doing ain't spoken to him for a long time... nothing to do with the fact he just got a house in London and drives a Merc...
People are funny sometimes. I understand computers better than people but the people are funnier. Well you did what the system told you to do, you obeyed your parents and the state. So how did that druggie retard do better than you when he ain't even got a £30k piece of paper? Everyone told me I needed a £30k piece of paper to get a job!
To quote NF: "I could go to college, get in debt like everybody else / Graduate and prolly get a job that doesn't pay the bills / That don't make a lot of sense to me, forget the Happy Meals."
NF is sick tho for real.
Sorry this comment is odd and went off on a tangent I know I been on a weird vibe today. Kinda depressed recently. Still happy to be coming up. Still finding it funny how fake people are. Take your mask off for once. Come on I'll take off mine first. You need some help? I'll introduce you to my mate her name is Mandy.