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I’m curious why you are so focused on working for someone else, when it’s clear that most will not hire you. A friend of mine was raised on the streets of Phil
by downandout 9y ago
I’m curious why you are so focused on working for someone else, when it’s clear that most will not hire you. A friend of mine was raised on the streets of Philadelphia. He was very talented with computers from an early age, but unfortunately nobody would hire him after he pled guilty to a felony as a result of being found with drugs and a gun.
I met him after all of this happened through an Internet marketing forum, where we exchanged ideas for a few years, before working together on several projects. He makes ~$50k/mo working on his own as an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketing is only a part of my personal business, but I make more just from that than I could if I were a senior engineer at Google or Facebook.
So it’s something you should consider. While you won’t be curing cancer, as a reasonably intelligent programmer, you’ll have a leg up over most others doing it, and you can pretty easily make a very comfortable living. It’s also something you can do on a moonlighting basis even if you do manage to get a job.