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Hey everyone! 👋 Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in a career rut and just spinning your wheels? I recently came across a post from someone who completed a coding bootcamp but is struggling to land a job in the tech industry. Let’s help out this person and offer some valuable advice! 💡
Here are a few suggestions for our fellow redditor:
– Consider building a strong portfolio showcasing your projects and skills ✨
– Network with professionals in the tech industry and seek mentorship 🤝
– Look into gaining certifications in AWS or other in-demand skills 🎓
– Explore freelance or remote opportunities to gain experience 💻
If you’ve been in a similar situation or have any advice to offer, feel free to share! Let’s support each other in navigating career challenges and finding success in our chosen fields. Remember, it’s never too late to make a change and pursue your passions! 🙂🚀
Ur making 70k dude dude coding after work. Which is weird coding seems meh
Switch to govt programming positions. Take anything you can get right now.
You might need a degree, so consider an online masters in cs at a place like georgia tech or similarly reputable. Sorry, bootcamps are a waste these days.
Become a nurse
70k a year with an art degree is winning quite honestly. If you want to get further, you could always just get some certs or get a comp sci degree at an online school like WGU, if you haven’t taken math in awhile, you will need to take some remedials on sophia learning (or similar sites, but that’s just what I used), but other than that, you still have plenty of doors open man 🙂 Tbh you are better off working that job for now and just developing on the side, the tech market is still pretty crappy even for people with substantial experience
I got into Workday consulting a few years ago and really like it.
70k at 30 is a lot better than where I was at. 31k when I was 30. 70k is more than junior software engineers in the Midwest make
Any chance you’d be willing to talk more? I have a poli sci background and have been unable to get a public sector job ever and currently looking.
>just pretending everyday to like my public sector job paying $70K
If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretending to like my private sector job paying half that.
I’m a little older and making half that. Sigh. I understand the anger and frustration though. You expected better. Use that energy to keep going, hopefully things will get better.
70k is more than like 2/3rds of the workforce makes.
I’ve lived on my own 14k – 60k now..
Also, they convinced everyone to get CS degrees, now nobody can find work in CS. There aren’t enough jobs to support the graduates.
Pushing 30 is fine, I started slow after college and got into tech when I was 28 and it’s turned out well for me.
Not to be an optimist, but keep making projects and learning python in your spare time and keep grinding to get a tech job. Your timing is cosmically bad to try and get into this space, but that will not last forever. Tech skills take a while to build, so when demand increases it dries up the talent pool very quickly. It’s probably the quickest path out of the spot you’re in right now.
Good luck in whatever path you choose.
70k job is solid, why can’t you move out?
If I could control your life like a sim I would get you in shape and start making social connections with others eventually leading you to a love interest. Then I would move the two of you out of your parents home where you would raise many kids and live happily ever after. The job is fine enough for this.
I had a cs bachelors and found coding so boring that I got a philosophy PhD and now make $70k a year teaching. Honestly I think you just have GIGS – coding jobs suck ass most of the time (it’s why they pay so well).
You make 70k and cant move out??? Quit focusing on computer shit and focus on managing your money better. You live with your parents still. Stack your money and invest. With ai and advancements that streamlines the IT world it’ll be harder and harder to get a job and youll end up like my father in law who is in the IT field, got laid off, and has been having a hard time finding a new one. In a few years you could have a nice down payment for a house, paid off car, and have a nice little nest egg, that is if you have financial discipline. Utilize the opportunity you have living at your parents, Majority of people don’t have a chance to get on top of life like that.
Well for starters. Comp sci wouldn’t have saved you rn. I live in the bay and comp sci is in an absolute rut with many layoffs. Your steady $70k would be more like $0 rn. This is also likely why your application are getting you no where. So breathe there.
That said where do you live? I’m imagining right now you are living in the bay or NYC or somewhere else comparably high cost. If you’re not then you can move out on $70k as that’s still a very solid income in much of the country.
if you want to code, get the certs. if you don’t want to code, it’s a terrible time to force a coding career you don’t like for $.
Three things:
1.) If you want to write code, you can’t take from January – July off. Don’t do that again – instead, consistency helps a lot.
2.) The whole concept of a path is highly overrated. Yeah, you’re 30 and went to a useless bootcamp. But you also sound significantly more interesting than the average candidate.
3.) Poli Sci isn’t a bad degree. The best developers I know are a high school dropout and a BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Wait.. how do I get your current job?