get a job and begrudgingly go to work for the rest of your life or until, if ever, you manage to do something you like? that's what everyone else is doing you know
don't know why in this field we're so uniquely brainwashed with the idea that you CANNOT be a programmer unless you are OBSESSED with it and spend every waking moment of your life thinking about computers or working on some side project
the lawyer doesn't do mock trials and browse /l/ - Law everyday after work

>>108438485
It's not that I'm no longer "obsessed" with it, I never was. But I was at least moderately interested in tech until about a year ago. Then even that evaporated.

>>108438453
I'm in the same boat, I just don't care about tech anymore

>>108438502
if work was fun it wouldnt be work. even if you loved working with computers you would probably grow to hate it because of its association to the tedium of having a job

>>108439325
I'm not so sure about that. I think this is some just world fallacy cope.

>>108439239
What do you think you're gonna do?

>>108439337
how so? a corporate environment kills your soul and corrodes anything in relation to it. nobody likes doing the same slop everyday

Learn how to grow food

>>108439377
Depends on the "corporate environment"

>>108439348
I'll study to get a government job, it's pretty stable job, so I don't need to worry about layoffs. Then with my free time I'll do what I like, that is music and riding my bike, doing stuff outside.
idk how it is the government jobs on your country, so the stability may vary

At some point the tech industry became extremely gay. I honestly can hardly understand the LinkedIn tier jargon people are regurgitating now. I have no idea where this industry is going. To try to learn any particular tech stack to a level even passably good for an interview takes months of study and hobby development. And by that point some AI will be doing it twice as good for free

>>108439894
What do you even do when you worked in tech? What do you show to your children?

>>108439465
Sounds fine, I guess.

>>108440310
The generated furry inflation porn for which I configure the internal scat-slider, so that Grok generates only the finest for our esteemed customers with the amount of tasteful scat that Elon demands must be present.

>>108440488
Kino

>>108438453
Do what you got a degree for. It'll be a job, not necessarily a bad thing it is not also your hobby.

>>108440310
food on the table. shelter over their head
small things like that

>>108440310
why do you need validation from your children? weirdo

>>108439894
i was looking for instructions on installing wordpress in 2026 and everything mentions a "docker stack"? wtf? no, you don't understand, i don't need to stack anything. i want a simple wordpress install to mess around with, nothing else needs to be "stacked" with it. comprende? no? i need to learn 40 other irrelevant bloated technologies i have no intention of using ever again? k

in 2010 i just uploaded the file to the server with filezilla and ran the setup

every time i want to try learning something out of boredom like i used to i hit something like this where it just doesn't make sense and ragequit. everything seems so arbitrary and convoluted

>>108441144
you don't have children

>>108441223
neither do you. how will we figure out who's wrong?

>>108441246
you have the vernacular and mindset of a teenage girl/faggot/tranny so i'll say the poster who reproduced is doing it right

>>108441262
samefag

>>108438453
You started a CS degree after the release of ChatGPT?
Wow.
>and it feels almost pointless.
It really is now that AI is beginning to automate large swaths of it.

>>108441736
I started right before AI blew up

>>108438453
If you don’t like your job then get a hobby you would like.

>>108441970
With a full time job you don't even have time for hobbies desu

>>108438453
All that chatter about being anxious and caring about technology is just dumb, just unload a big fat nut to prime Michelle Pfeiffer and find something productive to do in any field (productive meaning getting you money, pussy or improving your quality of life in some way)
>>108438485
This anon gets it, only redditors and that quirky "I love technology" crowd are obsessed with new state of the art shit. Any sane person with obesity and personal interests knows enough to make ends meet. Also those vanguard early adopters usually aren't very proficient at work.
Think of nfts and ruby, how many ppl just jumped ship on the next big think that would yada yada, and today it's just mediocre shit. Yes you have ppl rich thanks to blockchain but that was getting lucky on jew roulette more than the benefits of being an enthusiast
Just to give you an example some years ago everyone was fawning over unity, the next jesus, to learn to make your own videogames fast and cheap. I didn't care, I just shot the fattest of nuts you could imagine and remained knowledgeable in some technologies that were industry standards. Some years ago unity ACKED and every project running on it had to pay royalties, all the time learning it a waste

I am getting a cs degree but I don't really plan on working anyways

>>108438485
>don't know why in this field we're so uniquely brainwashed with the idea that you CANNOT be a programmer unless you are OBSESSED with it
All technical careers are like this anon. In law and medicine, once you are in with your license and shit, you can relax somewhat, while on technical careers you always need to keep pace with the state of the field. If you have insane work ethic and habits, you'll be alright even if you don't enjoy it, but if you are an average person, keeping pace is very hard if you don't enjoy it. There will be tons of people that actually like their job who will work twice as hard because to them it doesn't feel like such a big effort and they will eventually leave you in the dust. There is a reinforcing loop where people that like something have an easier time getting better at it, and they they like it even more the better they get, and so on.
And yes, lots of people do enjoy their jobs unlike >>108439325 says. Telling people that jobs feeling like pure pain and tedium is normal is absolute corporate propaganda so people tolerate hellish work environments and go into the cookiecutter careers that the corporate world needs more of (to keep pay low) instead of looking for something they like where they will likely be able to achieve greater success.

You fucked up by graduating. Should've kept on the financial aid gravy train and switched to a major you could actually enjoy. I made the same mistake. Now I'm like every other high school dropout and have to slowly build up from "no experience required" jobs. Have 3 years now in retail install. But there's no where to pivot that into for better money, so I just have to restart in a different industry for starting wages again and hope this time I pick something that can be a career.

(the majority of others in our situation are working soulless amazon/delivery jobs)