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by malux85 5610 days ago
I was in a similar situation to yourself, and all I can say is work your a55 off.

I bummed out of university after 6 months after getting ill. I had a student debt of 10,000 and nothing to show for it. I couldn't get a job in I.T. without a degree, so I decided to work hard

I got a job in a local stationery store. I took all of the extra hours I could, and I studied PHP and HTML+CSS in my spare time, programming in the evenings and weekends, building up on online portfolio. There was ZERO downtime, and I mean zero. When I was not sleeping, I was working, either at the stationery store, or learning PHP and doing contact work. You say 'I'm not lazy', so now is the time to prove it buster.

I started with a 10,000 debt and no degree in Christchurch New Zealand ... 6 years later I am now a senior PHP developer in a media company in London, with no student debt and am on a pretty comfortable wage. I still work hard (7 days a week) and started my own company 2 months ago.

- Work and study and you'll be rewarded. - It wont happen overnight - You need to be able to take a kick in the balls and get up again - WORK HARD