I'm doing just that. Not everybody at Hacker News is going to become a successful founder who ends up selling their startup for millions of dollars. I fucked

I'm doing just that. Not everybody at Hacker News is going to become a successful founder who ends up selling their startup for millions of dollars. I fucked up my shot at it and ended up in tons of debt. If I had followed Paul Graham's advice and been 23 and childless I would take another shot at it, but as it is I need a job that pays real money, not a long shot at becoming rich. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who will end up getting a job. Pharmacy pays better than most software jobs, is more stable, has a more flexible schedule, has plenty of jobs outside of places where a shitty little house costs a million bucks, and the process of becoming a pharmacist is not nearly as hellish as the process of becoming a researcher (as an undergrad I decided I didn't want to go to grad school, and I didn't even have a family that couldn't possibly be supported by a grad student's miserable stipend). My program is 3 years and does not involve being a professor's slave. I don't see why I would prefer to become a software engineer anyway. Both involve programming, but a startup founder solves his own problems while software engineers solve somebody else's. To me, that's a critical difference. Anyway, I admit I would have preferred to have become a successful startup founder, but other than that pharmacy is about as good as it gets. There's a reason that 16 applicants were rejected for every one that was accepted to my program, and it's not because the career is only slightly preferable to shoveling shit in Louisiana.