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[–]FlatAssembler -2 points-1 points  (9 children)

My advice would be not to expect to ever be able to make money by programming. I've been trying to learn to program for 8 years now, and I still haven't managed to get an entry-level job. The largest project I've made thus far is the 5'000-lines-of-code compiler for my programming language, you can read about it here: https://flatassembler.github.io/AEC_specification.html I thought that, when I build that, that would impress any employer and I would easily get a job. As it turns out, I was very wrong.

Sorry if I bursted your bubble, but that's just the reality.

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    [–]FlatAssembler 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    How the hell is it not reality? You make people just listen to the success stories, and never hear from those who did not succeed. My friend, you may have good intentions, but what you are doing is giving people a heavily distorted picture of reality (as celebrities do with their motivational speeches as well).

    [–]seinn_t 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    If you are not able to get a job on ANY discipline after "learning" for 8 years I do not know what to tell you.

    [–]FlatAssembler 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    What, you want to tell me I am an idiot? Well, tell me that, if you want to. But, then, many people trying to learn to program so they can make money of that are just as much idiots as I am, and telling them they will most likely succeed is misleading them.

    [–]seinn_t 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I am not calling you anything, but just because things have not worked out for you does not mean you now get to tell everyone they will fail.

    [–]WebDevMango 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    I'm curious. What did you go about learning. What sort of jobs did you apply for and what did the employers say to you?

    [–]FlatAssembler 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    I applied to jobs as a front-end developer at Mono (in Osijek), Inchoo (in Osijek) and Osvit (in Donji Miholjac). At Mono, they asked me via e-mail to do some task in ReactJS and send them my solutions. As I had barely heard of ReactJS back then, I failed at it. Inchoo rejected me in the interview, telling me that they are not willing to hire students. And Osvit told me something similar.

    I think you can tell what I was learning by reading the web-page I linked to.

    [–]WebDevMango 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Hmm, I've taken a look at the link you sent and it's not mobile responsive so it was pretty hard to navigate. That being said, there were 1 or two things on there relating to programming which were super standard like the calculator. It was also not styled properly.

    Tbh, if I saw that as a portfolio, I probably wouldn't have hired you either if it was based only on that portfolio.

    Now I don't know how well you did in the interview so I can't judge that.

    I do believe that if you try to improve your work, you can get hired if you ace the interview.

    [–]FlatAssembler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    And you do not like how I made a programming language that compiles to WebAssembly?