I did really like programming, and sunk my teeth int C, C++ and Linux, and did get jobs using those. I considered C / Linux (syscalls, shell scripting, etc) to

I did really like programming, and sunk my teeth int C, C++ and Linux, and did get jobs using those. I considered C / Linux (syscalls, shell scripting, etc) to be the "fundamentals" / foundational layer, that every higher-level language/fad was built on top of. I now realize I was basically wrong, all that stuff is now abstracted away as "cloud" or hidden under kubernetes / docker or whatever, and while my experience doesn't hurt... there are lots of people who are clueless with command line, Linux, C, malloc, etc., that get their job done just fine. There are amazingly few jobs for C, C++, Linux these days, when you consider the amount of existing software written for those. I enjoyed the culture around those things, but as career, it's not the future.