I often suffer from impersonator syndrome, my freelance rates should be North if 70 per hour but I keep getting stuck at 40...
I grew up poor though and teaching myself coding moved be to earn more then I thought I'd ever earn without a college degree.
I knew about for loops almost a decade before I decided web dev would be my career, not just my hobby.
it's insane that you could get hired and not know how they work.
linked lists, sure. I still don't fully understand those lol, I was going for an associate's and that was in my c++ class but I've mostly only touched PHP, python, ruby, JavaScript... playing around with go and rust some as well, but I've never had to really think about linked lists, loops on the other hand is a daily thing.
hell, not knowing loops is like not knowing how to increment, like seriously, his to add 1 to an int.
Even not-so-great-sounding contracts pay 50-65/hr, might be a confidence boost. Level up your skills on udemy, if necessary (wait for courses to be 80% off or whatever, happens regularly).
Could also go corporate at a non-tech for low stress and a decent salary.
I'm actually thinking of pivoting from web dev (10 years a laravel dev) to prompt engineering, and entry-level ai stuff, I'm not going to perfect the next big algorithm, but I can use langchain to create custom KB enhanced chatGPT instances, or automation agents for small-to-mid size companies.
I'm super obsessed lately w/ AI, on youtube, github, HN, reddit, etc... and working on actually building a clone of myself to do the mundane parts I don't like to do... hehe... this is kind of a green field, and the opportunities are huge, might be the last dev jobs when AGI hits -- training custom AGI's...
I grew up poor though and teaching myself coding moved be to earn more then I thought I'd ever earn without a college degree.
I knew about for loops almost a decade before I decided web dev would be my career, not just my hobby.
it's insane that you could get hired and not know how they work.
linked lists, sure. I still don't fully understand those lol, I was going for an associate's and that was in my c++ class but I've mostly only touched PHP, python, ruby, JavaScript... playing around with go and rust some as well, but I've never had to really think about linked lists, loops on the other hand is a daily thing.
hell, not knowing loops is like not knowing how to increment, like seriously, his to add 1 to an int.
Smh....