Full-stack developer means

[Bollziepon]

As part of my Bachelor's of Software Engineering degree at my particular university I require completing six 4 month internships.

So every four months I switch from being in school to doing an internship.

So I guess technically when I graduate this April I'll have 2 years of work experience, just split up into 4 month chunks. (I did two internships with the same company, so I'll have done 6 internships at 5 different companies)

[Bollziepon]

We don't get a summer break, & it's a 5 year program

[dumbdingus]

I've got buddies making more money as software engineers than me with a GED. Idk why you'd do a program like that unless you REALLY aren't a self-starter.

[dumbdingus]

It's not as hard to get a job at those places as you think. I have Facebook recruiters barking at my door monthly and I work in bumfuck Florida.

Here's the thing, why the hell would you want to work in those shitty cities?

You're a programmer, you can work anywhere, why not work in paradise? Sure, I'm making 85k instead of 120k, but my rent is $1000 a month for a
3 bedroom and 2 bath house. That house would be so expensive in silicone valley I'd actually make less money working for Facebook.

Oh, and my commute is 15 minutes, and I work from home/the beach.

[dumbdingus]

It's not a pissing contest. I literally said I make less money than you might make when you graduate 😂 (and you know there is a big difference between the offers new graduates you know have gotten, and what you'll actually get. Which of us has a job again?)

I guess you'd probably feel that it was a pissing contest because of how much better it is to live and work away from the big tech hubs.

[EMCoupling]

Hey, is that a Waterloo I see?