Nothing but Facts Sean you are giving 💎's out here and being transparent and real! Devs are in the cost center of a business not the profit center! Doing the same thing on my end multiple income streams is the way!

Please stop listening to this idiot. He’s fear mongering new developers making them think that tech is a big bad world. He probably sucks at his own job therefore tries to scare others. He must have gotten laid off due to his own incompetency.

I help developers get thier own clients so they can have some real job security. My favorite subfield is Ai and Automation , lets get this bread guys

It's temporary bruh. The market goes through booms and busts. The tech job market will be in a much better state in 2025 and 2026. Everything is cyclical

My hot take is that getting into tech is as challenging as landing a job in most other industries, but it’s still easier and pays better. If you have strong soft skills, know how to create a good CV, ace interviews, and genuinely enjoy learning, you can find great job opportunities. The key is to love coding and work on projects consistently without burning out. It’s like being an athlete trying to reach the big leagues. Even those laid off face tons of hungry candidates for the same roles. You need to show that your experience and passion make you stand out. Alternatively, i'd recommend maybe looking into less crowded areas of tech, like cloud engineering, dev ops, etc. I recommend for those struggling to read The Pragmatic Programmer; it suggests we think of our knowledge as a portfolio, similar to a financial portfolio. Managing it works like this: 1. Invest regularly as a habit. 2. Diversify for long-term success. 3. Balance safe and high-risk investments. 4. Aim to buy low and sell high. 5. Review and adjust regularly. To boost your knowledge portfolio, try picking up a new programming language each year, reading a technical book every quarter, taking local classes, joining user groups, experimenting with different tools, staying current with tech articles or magazines, and joining online forums.

I got my undergrad in stats in 2017 and work in the insurance industry getting my masters in data science. Going to hedge my skills after and maybe go to trade school after my MS at night, and potentially work on web app dev for a side gig

Thanks for the info Chris! I'm still in the studying phase and hopefully I can get a job when I get in the market. To be honest though, your advice on saving, and living below one's means should be something everyone does when they have a any kind of job.

I feel like Linkedin is filled with ghost jobs.

Good. Too many people were in tech anyways

its government collusion. the government wants people struggling and dead.

Ive been job searching since a layoff for 16 months. I lived below my means for 4 years. saved to 55k. got a job making 120k there for two years and saved to just over 100k. Got laid off now savingsmis down to around 60k. I really hate this industry.

Congrats on your success! 300K side hustle is amazing.

I'm a beginner in programming and jobeless. It's really hard and I don't know what to do. I think I'll go for mobile (yes, I know It's hard, but... what else could I do?). I trie everything I can, but I still can't get a job

Chris you're right on this one

if you’re making that much in your side hustle why work a full time job?

I left California for Tokyo a few years ago, I was open to which ever Cali or Japan jobs came first and my only opportunities were in Japan. After hearing news like this in the tech environment from friends and family, I just feel like things work out in interesting ways. Though this tech job in Japan is kind of something I worked towards 12 years for, studying computer science and Japanese in college. I can't really say this is something anybody can just pick up like the whole "do a bootcamp" route. If you don't have a balance of Japanese language and tech skill, you'll probably need extremely exceptional experience to make up for that lack of Japanese.

It's a great feeling when your boss calls you into that 3pm "quick catchup" meeting where they let you go but have no idea of your muiltple income streams

This is why people work multiple remote jobs in tech while starting their own business on the side

My *steaming* hot take is if you aren't already a senior in most of the tech roles (I'm not so I'm in the same boat here), it's basically over. The ladder has been pulled up and every single major company both in the west and China have put all the chips on LLMs/AI being able to carry out most tasks they will need in the next decade. The downside risk they are all taking is that there won't be a next generation of junior->senior in about a decade, but that's why they have gone all in on the new tool set as a complete replacement. The same pattern can be observed in many other fields. The majority of physical skills are still very viable but those jobs are considered either "dirty" or "hard" so most people straight up refuse to take the sunk cost fallacy hit and rebrand/reskill. They would literally rather go hungry than follow the the way of aggregate supply and demand.

Just a friendly feedback, whatever you say applies only to the US/Canadian market. Things in Europe are very different from what you describe (coming from someone who works and lives in Europe, tech industry). It would be good for people that watch, to know that things are different in different places of the world.

appreciate the honest content you put out

Hey Chris. been a minute. how've you been?

I am in my fifteen years in tech and still learning and grinding. Going from job to job makes no different same bucket of shit just in a different bathroom.

I learned to code at the age of 56.

I can't afford college or boot camp what do i have to do to get a remote job in tech like you? Im not afraid of work If you want to mentor a guy who wont piss you off im available lol, dont lose hope alot of us are hungry

thank you

I don't believe it's just the physical paper that gives you happiness I believe it's the comfort of knowing your okay if anything happens or difficulties show up your flexible enough to choose any parh

You inspired me to learn years ago and now I'm in the same position. Thank you.

Learning how to code was never worth it. Learning the principles of designing good architecture, and having the ability to be able to code it, always will be.

You can get a free cs degree from some companies that have the guild program. Me personally I'm getting it from Walmart and even then i appreciate the fundamentals and to my knowledge I've heard it's harder to get a job compared to someone who goes to college for computer science

I rather the peace of mind and less stress, instead of the 100-200k jobs bring.

I didnt watch the whole video, because I knew it was bullsh!t !" he just wants to get views, so he can get paid.

I took around 8 months of unpaid intern and then I got slammed.. on my first paid webdev job because they threw me in the deep deep end.. I went in there.. next thing Im in meetings with clients trying to build fairly major projects.. being given tickets with deadlines on tasks I cant really do lol ... luckily its coming together now. bottom line : you're not going to get this overnight.. this is a very very very very broad broad career with needed commercial competency in a very very wide range of skills sets.. frankly the broadest I have ever seen... and even then building the knowledge to solve the wide range of problems of development task.. this is not as straight forward as learning to code ; this is about repetition and experience. This is why I get very cross with industry low ball offers for webdevs... unless the company is willing to train.. instead of just demand commercial competency .. then its very different.

Man makes being thankful so easy

1st world problems

webdev is easy tho

are yu sniffing coke lol

It depends. It took me 1 year to get the hang of it.

Miss you on this platform, Chris! Hope you come back someday but when/if you're ready

I am 47 and starting over in life and I am all in on it. I am starting out with python to learn that first then I will work on JS and html later on. Learning it is hard for me but I am willing to put in the work to do it though.

I will come back here and tell you that I got my first job as frontend dev see u soon guys

Not gonna lie, ot was hard listening to this. I aspire and dream to be a software engineer, because of the art of it. This video is a wake up call. Thank you for your guidance, this is humbling.

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Okay I have a question if money isn't the problem then what should you recommend?

You talk that talk. These ads make it seem like getting a career in software is some get rich quick scheme. Nice to see someone shed light on how difficult the journey is.

I learned by myself for almost 2 years, and I didn’t know how to use a debugger, and I used the print statement to debug my programs. However, after enrollment in an online degree program, I learned how to use debugger and my programming now is more efficient. I feel I learned a lot in the program

Thanks Chris for this, I'm really glad I listened to this and I hope not to quite.

I got my 1st job as a feontend react dev a year ago after 10 months of hustle, self taught no CS degree no bootcamp. Its doable but i was learning my ass pff for 10 hours a day. Now year later i am backend developer, completely new field, i am still learning....

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