[culopatin]

I’m almost 30 and I’m still chasing the career I want. I’m in IT, but I want to be in software dev. I want to build things, not just fix them.

When I was 17 a company poached my from my technical high school and put me in the field to learn by doing. It went great, but it’s not the career I want. I need to find the same opportunity but in a software developer role. I’m confident that I’ll be a sponge and I’ll produce results quickly under someone’s wing, but it’s rare that someone wants that with such competitive market.

If someone here is curious about this, please reach out, I’m willing to take it as a second job part time if you can’t pay much, or even if you can’t pay. All I need is an opportunity to get my foot in the door.

[mastrsushi]

I don’t want to discourage you, but A LOT of software engineering is fixing things.

Coming from someone who also said “I want to build things not fix them” when I picked CS when I was 18.

To be fair, I went to ODU though and didn’t have the best grades.

[culopatin]

I understand that and I’m ready to do that. But I see it as being part of the group that is building something. In IT, unless you are an architect, things are pretty much set. I understand that I romanticize it a bit, but I won’t settle until I try for myself.

I think this is what I want my career to be so I’m trying to go for it. If it’s not, then I’ll go for mechanical engineering and I’ll start all over. Mech eng would line up with my hobby of racing cars in part.