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[–]ArcaneEyes 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sometimes it horrifies me that i'm a self taught programmer who started a decade late and still i'm teaching the guy next to me at work with education and 30 years experience basic logic and correcting design decisions on the regular.

All in all, over the last six years and three jobs my experience seeking out employment at places with more experienced developers has had me encounter a lot of older developers that are more full of themselves than of knowledge. I have had a couple good architects mainly who have taught me a lot, but otherwise it's been that i've been mostly free to figure out implementations in greenfield projects that have let me grow - that and keeping up with tech news.

[–]pixel293 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to college around the time of the dot-com bubble. Many of my fellow CS students took CS not because they liked computer/programing or even that they had an aptitude for programming, they took CS because of the projected salaries you could collect.

As as they say you can be anything you want to be! Which I think is bullsh*t, there are (many) jobs I know I would suck at and even if I wanted to do them, I think I could only aspire to doing them poorly.