1) Software development takes 2 weeks to be able to do, and 15 years to be good at 2) You're competing in a global heavily saturated market and need to find a

1) Software development takes 2 weeks to be able to do, and 15 years to be good at 2) You're competing in a global heavily saturated market and need to find a way to stand out (all the qualifications, certifications, github repos, friends you can get to land the first proper position) 3) You're not special but you're not a failure either. Software dev is a rollercoaster of feeling like you're one or the other 4) Don't aim to be a software developer, aim to solve a problem you're interested in (software development for the sake of software development is terribly dull - 99% of the problems are boring - find the 1%) 5) Ignore the hype. You won't be a rockstar programmer, top 10 app store, bitcoin millionaire tomorrow because you bought that Python book