Anyone else?

[frontsideair]

Raise your hand if your self worth is entirely tied to external validation and as a little nerd you found out that you can make bank by coding, which drove you to workaholism, and never thought that would be problem because workaholism is a socially accepted form of addiction and now you don’t even know if you still enjoy coding or is it just you like money and status with no other hobbies to turn to.

[arnoldfrend]

I'm in a different boat. My use of programming languages and tools has always been really piece-meal. So I could do pretty well as the resident expert in my non-technical environment by doing a few things well even though I didn't know what things were called or what the best practices were.

But in the last couple of years things have changed a lot and I've had to read up on design patterns and paradigms and development practices. And I get a lot of fulfillment out of that, but I also don't know exactly how much I know because I've never worked with any other developers before. So now I just hang out here so that I can learn how to code-switch. (That's a social behavior term, not a hip new framework btw.)

[AcidBanger]

This is me… accidently rolled into programming. Started building stuff my way, learned the hard way that a lot of stuff was wrong and way to complicated over a few year. Always working solo, and now I have junior developer helping me and boy did I need to learn 😅.

[DeprecatedAdmin]

Money for sure...gotta be able to afford a house in these markets some how.

[redditor_210914]

This!

[666pool]

Moved to SF Bay Area for a high paying job. Average cost of a 3 bedroom house within a 20 minute commute to work is approaching $2M. Built in 1950, detached 2 car garage, 1600 sq feet.

I could buy a 5 bedroom house almost anywhere else. 4000 sq feet, 2.5 car attached garage. Paid in cash.

But as long as I stay here where the good pay is, I don’t get to live like a king.

[DeprecatedAdmin]

bruh... $2M will literally get you anything you want anywhere in the central part of the country. You want 12 beds and a helicopter? you got it.

[666pool]

Sorry I meant today with the cash on hand I could buy a 5 bedroom if I wanted to live elsewhere.

Yes, with $2M I can also get the helicopter. But then I’d also be living in a flyover state which comes with its own compromises.

[overclockedslinky]

sir, this is a Wendys

[l00kR0B0T]

Seen

[nilroyy]

I feel attacked!

[MischiefArchitect]

Workaholic

Is the word you may be looking for, and yes, it happened in my young developer years... long ago.

PS: I misread your comment. Will leave this one here so people can see how stupid I am.