Let me tell you young boys and girls trying to make it here This is a cut throat place. You have to keep reinventing yourself. The experience you had before will very soon become irrelevant. Please become a developer/programmer only if you are really wanting to. Don’t do it because it pays. By the time you reach 40 you are going to get burnt out and hate your life choices. Young girls and boys from India particularly who want to do their masters only for visa think VERY carefully. If you don’t have even a slight liking for this profession don’t do your masters. You will be stuck in visa queue forever and life will become hell in your 40s. Do what you like and you will create your own path. If you want to be around tech there are still several options like product, sales, marketing etc. Don’t get influenced by hoodie wearing millionaire kids in their 20s that movies make you believe. There are people genuinely passionate about programming and they make it here. If you are not then this is not for you. Good luck.
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Just curious, are you in your 40s hating life or in your 20s using 100 dollar bills as toilet paper?
This is not a letter essay writing or letter writing competition
Neither is there really some standard or approved format, so...what’s your point?
Single Indian average looking men should literally avoid doing masters. Once you come as a single guy in the US, you are less likely to find love here considering the horrible male to female ratio for Indians. You will literally become hopeless as you rely on arrange marriage. Better to find a GF in India and then do your Masters together as a couple or just come on L1 visa as a married couple. When you come here in the US as a single dude you will have lots of mental health issues due to loneliness.
I am hating my life. In my 40s with 2 restless kids. About to get fired from MS soon.
Ohh why do you say that? Could it be more in your head than your managers?
Either way good luck man!
Ok Boomer.
Is it possible to get into sales on an H1-B?
I love doing tech work. I know I am good at it too. Even then my first job was a disaster. All problems are due to companies treating their employees like trash and justifying it as 'fast-paced startup culture'. I have started writing my experiences: https://eternalnewbie.substack.com/
I think you need to have much more than a slight liking to survive your 40s in the same profession. You need to really fucking love it. I figure the kids who jump in without any aptitude hope to become a manager? Good luck with that.
“Do what you enjoy or you won’t enjoy doing it” sounds about right
I've never been a fan of this line. Obviously if you love something and are good at it that's awesome and more power too you. But to say this as a blanket statement is idealistic and naive. We tell this to kids in schools and set unrealistic expectations. That's why we get so many students going to college for low paying professions and come out with tens of thousands in debt and make 50k a year. You don't live to work you work to live and if you can make that something you also enjoy awesome but if not it's not the end of the world, explore your hobbies.
This wasn’t a direct quote, just a summary of the post. I think you’re talking about a different line that mentions “passion” or something (to which I’d agree)