mehwishh247

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Programmer. Learning something new every day.
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Comment · 2 years ago
This is a really nice way to combine literary genre into a game. But may I ask one thing: What tools have you used for content generation? Is it static for each answer we give, or AI generated responses? I must admit, it is very human.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, pretty much. And I apologize for not writing clearly. English isn't my first language. This is why I wrote a hard-to-understand context. Also, I was crying at the time, so my head wasn't in the write place, I guess.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you so, so much for this. For all the suggestions. I will start following them hopefully without being discouraged again. And thank you for the suggestion about communication!
Comment · 2 years ago
When I say city, it means one of the few cities which have like a hundred software houses (big and small) while my city has only 5 opened within last two years (didn't have a single one when I graduated). I applied to in those cities. I understand they wouldn't pay more to a resource that had to relocate. I understand that businesses like to have resources that aren't burden (hence they would prefer someone in the same city). But this doesn't account the difference. Only my skills should have mattered.
Comment · 2 years ago
I know it's unfortunate, but I am okay with it. It is what it is. And we cannot change facts, so we accept them. It's just, I couldn't afford having those jobs and the difference rubbed it on my face. Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was planning on this. Just didn't know how because of this loop. Money doesn't matter to me. It only matters when I actually have to spend for the job (like moving to a different city)
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you. I cannot thank everyone commenting on this post enough. I really needed this support.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you for your suggestion. I will actually look into it. I found other bootcamps like this before but they weren't affordable to me.
Comment · 2 years ago
I did actually. Not the code but how to proceed. As in a senior might guide a junior developer at job. But it forgets what we were doing within 24 hours because I am using Snapchat's AI (which is ChatGPT)
Comment · 2 years ago
If I am being honest, a living. No project comes to my mind at all. Just that I want to work. I love coding, can spend hours on it. If someone ask me to make something, I am all up for it. But nothing comes to my mind on my own. It's just plain numb at this point. A project that I have started working on is a scraper that will have Google Sheets integration and then I will use it make insights + some other plans of scaling this project.
Comment · 2 years ago
I had class fellows who were really not good at coding during education. I am not saying they were not talented or in any way I was better than them. Just that during study, I saw them struggling with technical concepts and coding a lot.

They got hired within 6 months of graduation. I give it that they were living in a different city but that still doesn't explain the salary difference.

They guy I talked about earlier had almost the same grade, same interest in tech, and same graduation year as me. That's why I mentioned him and not others.

I do not have victim mentality. It is just a fact that the part of the world I live in, there is a salary disparity between the two genders. It so happened that I got a bit demotivated because of it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you for commenting. I am thinking about creating an automated scraping and then storing result in Google sheets. Something along the lines... But I feel like I don't know how to do it. I guess I just have a fear of failure. I work better in a guided environment and by guided, I mean for only one single practice or project, I just needed someone to guide me through the stuff.

But you're right, I really need to do it myself. Nobody can help me but me.

Comment · 2 years ago
When I was about to graduate, I wanted to make an app for mute people to talk through their phone (Not tons of people know SL here) but my professor curbed the idea. Afterwards I didn't know where to start, and this is why I wanted to do a job so I could learn how real-life projects and things work.

But you are right, I need to get ahead my fear of failure.

Comment · 2 years ago
I really want to actually make progress in my career, and I want to make myself accountable for it too. I am just on the HOW part of it all. I tried asking people what they did to get a job (to understand what I was doing wrong), I asked people what they learned and how they did it (actual implementation of what they studied) but people are busy and didn't get much answers from LinkedIn network. So here I am again asking the same questions!

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