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20377690 No.20377690[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

In the next year I will either learn programming with a series of classes and projects or write my first novel. I won't have time for both.
I am interested in both for different reasons, programming as a way to switch to a new career from my dead-end local government job, and the novel to finally make good on my interests in writing going back to my teen years and studying English in college.
So, write code or write literature for the next year? What does /lit/ think?

>> No.20377696 [DELETED] 

Noone cares fag, take it to facebook(saged)

>> No.20377849

>>20377690
You definitely have time for both you're just a lazy slob

>> No.20377903

>>20377690
>These children are more effay than I will ever be
Why live???

>> No.20377914

>>20377690
>programming as a way to switch to a new career from my dead-end local government job
Which country?

Also, don't wait till the next year, OP.
Just start it now.

>> No.20377951

>>20377914
>don't wait till the next year
this

>> No.20378108
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20378108

>>20377914
I studied computer science, got a decent diploma, wrote software in Pascal, C and C++ for 30y (22y commercially). It's slowly ruining my health, too much work, not enough people to do the job, management doesn't understand the development cycle, customers expecting work and features for free, treating you like crap, you have to do trivial work for people who can't really use a computer but work in the industry anyways.

>> No.20378191

>>20378108
The question is:
How much did you make?

>> No.20378265

>>20378191
Taxes a horrifying for independent developers.
After taxes, only around 45000 Euros a year. And then there's equipment cost, transport and hotels.

>> No.20378272

People who ask that kind of question never actually do what they say.
>don't have time for both
Faggot

>> No.20378290

>>20377690
programming - I work remote and can write 10 hours a week just because of flexibility. Also, if you have never written a novel and are a nobody, quite literally everyone in the world doesn't care. I'd recommend maximizing your capacity to write over decades not the next year.

>> No.20378296

>>20378108
Bro you gotta learn to manage up - with that experience you shouldn't be getting those bad deadlines or they are foolish to ignore you

>> No.20378297

>>20378290
What language and what do you make per hour ?

>> No.20378300

>>20378297
Python and Javacript (full-stack) $60 USD base but I'm full-time

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20378317

>>20378300
I'm making 65 Euro as an independent in embedded Linux/C++/Qt and Image processing with OpenCV after 20y, pretty sure I'm under-selling.

>> No.20378341

>>20378317
Europe is garbage for wages. Have you looked into doing anything in Switzerland? They pay US wages for namebrand plaves. Same with Luxemburg and Lichtenstein (assume Kraut)