There are plenty of testimonials out there from 'ex-coders' who are now entrepreneur and other fields, because they were 'wasting their life'. and honestly, entry level programmers do not even make that much money compared to other significantly less technical fields.
Money isn't worth it to me, to live that kind of life. I quickly realized that I didn't want a future of sitting in front of a screen for 40, 50, 60+ hours a week, typing code, day in and day out. How they were working 70+ hour weeks to meet game release deadlines, dealing with pressure, then due to that pressure making mistakes because of a rushed product. Then around this time too, the whole Red Dead Redemption 2, programmer misuse came into light.
I was not happy in school, spending 10-15 hours every week, sitting there in front of NetBeans typing away code. What I appreciated most about this book, is that around the time of completion, I decided that I did not want to pursue coding professionally.Īt that point of my coding career, I had just completed my third college course on programming.
