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by dugword 2101 days ago
The good news is most business problems are not that hard.

There are domains where you really have to be a crackerjack engineer, but most jobs just need you to know how to push and pull things out of datastores, make network requests, map data structures, and maybe render the results on a web page.

Technical job interviewers loves to grill candidates on reversing binary trees, or obscure programming language trivia -- but the job itself will be building a CRUD app.

So what should you do? If you enjoy programming, I'd say stick with it. Not everyone needs to be working on ground breaking cryptography or compiler optimizations. Sounds like you just need to find a tech stack and problem space where you can feel comfortable working on it.