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I decided to work towards pivoting away from full stack web and mobile development into something deeper, something closer to the metal, and something that could have a physical end result. I started programming at 12 because I loved games and wanted to grow up to become a game developer. Then life happened and I had to drop out of high school, find work (in web and mobile), which is what I have now been doing for the past decade. After just a few years into actually working, I had the thought that maybe the thing I’m passionate in isn’t actually valuable to companies. Getting existential anxiety around the age of 20 is insane. So I instead figured “fuck it, I’ll play this game until I can finance returning to school, continue my education, and go from there.” Over the years, this sort of existential “this is my passion, but I hate doing it as a job” just grew and grew up until we had AI.
That just made things even more unbearable, up until now when I decided that if I’m going to be working in this bullshit industry, I’d rather be doing something which I enjoy.” Using AI to build software has for me removed nearly everything that has still kept me thinking that maybe I could power through it. So now, I’m going to instead dive into actually learning C, then moving more towards embedded devices, and ultimately trying to pivot (or grow) my skillset towards that area instead. Since I also love to teach, my plan is to start both documenting my journey through videos, and to try to also get my feet wet with trying to make educational content. For money though, I have no fucking clue what I’ll do. But the important thing for me is that whatever I do, or however much I make - at least I’ll enjoy the journey, instead of waking up miserable. |