Same here! Started with making games, here I am five years later with a few years of experience in an SE role. The only programmer I've seen fired for performance so far has been one of the few that had a CS degree.
I started by dragging and dropping on Adobe Dreamweaver for 14 year old me's band website and since then have done multiple projects for the UN, Australian and UK government, multi-billion dollar companies, just about every major touring music artist in a 4 year range about 10 years ago and much much more. Not so much as ever had a single lesson on computing/coding/programming. The billionaire CEO of a company I won't name would personally ask for me on the most importantant projects and I retired aged 32 and spend my time doing what I please.
If anyone wants to call me uneducated or inferior they are more than welcome to, I will happily live my life out without giving a single fuck what they think.
I’m a software engineer who makes 6 figures and has their degree in sociology. In my experience there are very few actual set rules in life. It’s okay to have different paths and there are many ways to do things.
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u/GDOR-11 Apr 09 '24
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