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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhatTheFuck" data-source="post: 811027" data-attributes="member: 8746">I've been kind of trying to avoid posting here more, as well as in my other thread "WTF's sober game and approach thread".  Reason being I am embarrassed as fuck.  Also in regards to the other thread, I am DEFINITELY not sober, but that's okay.  I will make this work.In the last few weeks a lot has fallen apart, and I am back to square one.  This career shit is hard, and I'm honestly not confident things are going to get better here in the USA anytime soon.  Other countries aren't even a good bet as no doubt they will all follow in the way of the west soon enough.I removed my life story from the OP, because it was a mess and could identify me based on a bunch of shit.  Also I was confused and lost.  Basically I went to college to satisfy my parents, plus it seemed like the best option at the time.  I got a worthless liberal arts degree, and am now I'm just another victim of the times.  After college all I wanted to do was escape, and I've been fairly successful at that, although my resume now looks like swiss cheese.  The last several years I've essentially just been alternating seasonal customer service and restaurant jobs with travel.  Work part of the year, travel the other.I moved out of my parents house to a new city to try my luck in tech earlier this year with self taught front end web development skills. I spent 6 months teaching myself html, css, and javascript, as well as doing freelance projects on Upwork.  I learnt a lot, but honestly now in retrospect I was probably naive.  Iv'e done so many projects for idiots for just a few hundred dollars that were probably much closer to several thousand dollars in work.  Some may likely disagree with me, but I believe the days of self taught coders are coming to an end.  At least in the near future.  A few years ago even 3 month coding bootcamps were landing people 80k/year jobs just like that.  Now the money is in running the bootcamps.  People are laughing at my self taught skills, at least in Denver.  I know my skills are at least worth $15/hr at the very least, probably way more, but that's hard to find.  If i could find a legit front end development job for 15/hr I would take it in a second just to get more experience, even though I know that's barely enough to survive in any major city.  Based on a lot of research I've done, we are now deep in the beginnings of another tech bubble, equivalent to year 2000 tech collapse, but probably MUCH worse.I'll have to decide in the next few days, it's so tough to give up my dream here in Denver, but I'm probably moving back home.  It seems ridiculous to grind it out here in the land of minimum wage opportunity.  Stronger men than me have succeeded I'm sure.However, best bet for me at this time is to move back in with my parents in my hometown, put some money in the bank ( significant since I won't be dropping 1k on rent per month), and save up enough to buy some land and build a tiny house.  I am literally obsessed with the tiny house movement and getting off the grid.Maybe i'll report back again in another year.</blockquote>

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