99% of the good jobs are filled through internal references. All the shit jobs nobody wants to do are filled through recruiters and cold appliers. Learned this one the hard way, lol.
I don't know if this means anything but now, at 30, I have sooo many more things going through my mind than when I was a child, and I think it makes it harder to learn anything.
Did I turn off the stove? Have I fed my dogs today? Oh fuck I gotta do my taxes. Can't sit down too long or my hemorrhoids will flare up. Am I really going to be hunching over a computer for the rest of my life?
>I am 24 and I have some pretty incredible tools in my pocket right now
That's cool, but your life likely isn't any better than the life of isolated indigenous tribes in the amazon. You get your dopamine hits by playing with your smartphone and they get theirs by catching fish with their bare hands.
Sure you will lose a little bit, like 2 or 3% a year. But if you have nothing saved then what will you do in case of an emergency? such as losing a job?
No it isn't a gravy train compared to most jobs. Anything can be a gravy train if you have the right connections and work on the right jobs. But for most people, jobs suck, regardless of what you do.
Let's be honest. 90% of JS developers out there probably don't even know what a lock is.
I know a JS dev who gets paid good money to develop software, who thought the reason you shouldn't use floating-point to deal with currency was because "javascript is bugged".
>Nobody likes to be told that they're wasting their free time,
Wasting free time, a.k.a living? Capitalist propaganda is so godamn effective. People now believe that every minute you spend not working is wasted time.