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What? You've been programming for 8 years and you think you're not good enough to work as a programmer? I used to think this way as well. You know what change
by mattm 17y ago
What? You've been programming for 8 years and you think you're not good enough to work as a programmer?
I used to think this way as well. You know what changed? I started doing freelance work and a lot of the first jobs I did was taking over from a crappy programmer. I fixed bugs in their code and had to work with horrible designs.
It's a great confidence boost once you start seeing real code being used and think "I can do this much better."
- blhack 17y agoWow, thanks for the confidence boost, Matt. :). I guess I'll have to start poking around for some freelance work, then.
- mahmud 17y agoFreelancing is the bootcamp of software engineering; you will see stuff that will shock you. I have seen everything, from a medical billing package done in Excel, to a DSL in Ocaml for generating apache configuration files for a hosting company.