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you should probably focus less on hardware limitation since you're still learning as it's not like you're going to develop the newest hot ml tech or something.

you should probably focus less on hardware limitation since you're still learning as it's not like you're going to develop the newest hot ml tech or something. you say you live in Italy, wouldn't it be possible for you to work part time as a waiter or something to gather funds while you learn in the other part? you can find any book for free on the internet if you dig enough. you seem to be caught up on wanting to get a job that offers the most money. salaries depend on the location of the person. if you live in silicon valley your salary is going to be higher than someone living in italy. you say you've bought security books in hopes of bug bounty hunting but then felt like you're losing time?. it seems like you want to learn something fast to start making money. people won't hire you if you don't know shit about the things you're supposed to know. so taking the time to learn isn't a negative thing at all. and then you say because of that you jumped into full stack development. but now you don't like it and you're asking us if you should continue. only you can answer these types of questions. people come from different background here in HN. some are db admins, soft devs , swes...etc nobody can answer your question. my advice for you would be to try to figure out what you like the most, then try to build things with it. for example build a full stack application using any tech. anything to get your foot going to get a feel about the job. i also find it hard that you can't find a job for a tech other than php in italy?. i would assume so in a third world country but not in italy. also ever heard of remote work? freelancing?... etc. i feel like you just get too caught up on job opportunities salary and stuff that you don't get to focus on actually learning and improving. a lot of great people in web dev got there after doing shitty jobs getting garbage salaries. you have to do it because you like it not how many $ you gain.

cdparanoia 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I should start to build something and don't think my limitations but to how much I can. I can do a part time job sure, but I have a limited time, starting from school from 8:00 AM until 1 - 2 PM, then I need to study in a very limited time, go to part time job, finish very late. Yeah I know there is free books, I always start from them. I'm still studying and I am at the end of the school year, and as I said, I don't like what they teach me, basically what I hate. So when I finish school I wanna do a job that I like in the things I like. I read that cybersecurity / Ethical Hacking books are useless cause they are outdated and useless, I tried with tryhackme, but how much far I can go with the free path? No, I don't need something to learn fast, I wanna learn something that I like and I can do. I will follow your advice to try to figure out and build something. Italy is really a 3rd world, and school in Italy don't have good IT teachers enough, that's why I am afraid one day I will decide to go outside (that's what I wanna do) there's less job request with PHP, but in anyway, I don't wanna work with PHP.
- randomStrangler 4y ago
  learning php is certainly not a bad thing. you may get assigned to a legacy code at a certain company that's written in php and your php knowledge would come in handy there. php is not so bad lol. it's just that there is better options out there. i totally get what you're saying about the uni stuff being stone age. i also was taught using php and the content of the course was too basic to be used in a real world scenario. plus in development using laravel is a savior, so don't worry about php too much.
- yuppie_scum 4y ago
  You really need to check your privilege and go visit an actual third world country before you make statements like that, kiddo

cdparanoia 4y ago

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I should start to build something and don't think my limitations but to how much I can. I can do a part time job sure, but I have a limited time, starting from school from 8:00 AM until 1 - 2 PM, then I need to study in a very limited time, go to part time job, finish very late. Yeah I know there is free books, I always start from them. I'm still studying and I am at the end of the school year, and as I said, I don't like what they teach me, basically what I hate. So when I finish school I wanna do a job that I like in the things I like. I read that cybersecurity / Ethical Hacking books are useless cause they are outdated and useless, I tried with tryhackme, but how much far I can go with the free path? No, I don't need something to learn fast, I wanna learn something that I like and I can do. I will follow your advice to try to figure out and build something. Italy is really a 3rd world, and school in Italy don't have good IT teachers enough, that's why I am afraid one day I will decide to go outside (that's what I wanna do) there's less job request with PHP, but in anyway, I don't wanna work with PHP.

randomStrangler 4y ago
learning php is certainly not a bad thing. you may get assigned to a legacy code at a certain company that's written in php and your php knowledge would come in handy there. php is not so bad lol. it's just that there is better options out there. i totally get what you're saying about the uni stuff being stone age. i also was taught using php and the content of the course was too basic to be used in a real world scenario. plus in development using laravel is a savior, so don't worry about php too much.
yuppie_scum 4y ago
You really need to check your privilege and go visit an actual third world country before you make statements like that, kiddo