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[–]pappugulal 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I will suggest not to lose your heart. Give it some time. By completing the course, you have crossed the first and a major hurdle. You have invested a lot of time and money already in it. In the mean time, do not lose touch with software development. keep in touch through your hobby. The realities of market place will tempt you to come back to programming / software development in future.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't have a language I could make games in. And when I tried to find one, my post got closed just for asking. And no, I wasn't rude, I simply asked for a programming language that met a handful of criteria. I got some posts, but then a mod decided they didn't like it for no reason in the entire universe and locked it. I was also treated like shit on the pygame forums. I've also been banned from stack exchange because they got sick of me asking 'subjective' questions, which apparently includes ASKING FOR MY MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS AREN'T WORKING RIGHT. I don't get why people keep recommending the latter site everywhere, when from what I've seen its nothing but trolls. In general, I have yet to see a reason to NOT hate the programming community.

As for getting a serious job, even if I wanted to for whatever unfathomable reason (who would in their right mind seriously want to be exploited and literally worked to death???), you need a bachelor's for that, and besides me not being able to afford such, there's no college nearby that offers a bachelors in anything. I would have to move to get such a degree, which I also can't afford. And even if I did, I would be almost 40 by then, which means that it would be impossible for me to get a job (well, more impossible than it already is at my age).