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the unemployable programmer

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1. ] by anonymous @pen.io - Story of how 1 programmer went from "writing little programs" to discovering that programmers are "a dime a dozen" and knowing how to write programs wasn't enough in today's world,

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[WHEN]

1. ] 2015-08-03

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1. ] Little programs, mostly games, but also weird things like my own text editor, some weird math-y things, small programs that generated graphics procedurally, and a single-user chat bot.
2. ] The most profound changes silently happened to the world while I was obliviously pissing my life away until my early forties: knowing how to write programs is no longer enough to make a living.
3. ] Job interviews in programming are multi-staged and resource-draining on the applicant, but I went in with vague optimism.
4. ] Today, there are literally hundreds of applicants even for the shitty jobs in programming.
5. ] After wasting hours on talking to HR people, filling out IQ tests from questionable self-help websites, going through programming challenges, and enduring passive-aggressive phone interviews with technical people, they suddenly realize.
6. ] Programmers are dime-a-dozen now, and you might suddenly find yourself out on the street, unable to get back on your feet.
7. ] I might work out, I might not, but honestly the chances are not really different if you hire anyone else - I would argue that the outcome of hiring an Unemployable Programmer might in fact be better overall, because we're motivated and we get stuff done - as opposed to the hipster "Rockstar" programmer we actually do eat and breathe code.

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