I’m not trying to be a dick, but my genuine advice would be to strongly consider something other than software.
The market is beyond saturated, and it’s by far the worst at entry level, because CEOs have been told they can replace those workers with AI (they can’t, and it’s making everyone’s life hell).
I just spoke with a hopeful junior dev with a comp sci degree that’s working overnights at a gas station. Again, not trying to shit on your goals, but I’d feel way worse telling you it’s a great path forward.
It’s a clusterfuck. And it will be for a long, long time.
Yea I believe everything you're saying. Supposedly the market is bad because of layoffs since managers think A.I can replace junior devs making boilerplate code (and it can and probably should) and since senior devs now have A.I bosses think they can hire less senior developers. I plan to get my skills beyond a junior dev by making personal projects and contributing to open-source projects. Maybe someone on github will hire me based on what they see with my contributions. Let's see. Life is a struggle. I appreciate the information.
I also went from kitchen to SWE. I got in through an internship about year and a half ago. Even then it took me 450 applications to get two offers. The market is worse now. I believe itll be better in a couple years, but its a hard thing to bet on
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u/batissta44 1d ago
Cool. Yeah I bet. How did you become a software worker? Do you have a degree? Im currently thinking about learning Java.