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Originally Posted by Webgoji
125K per year!?  That's over 4 times my salary and I have degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering.
What is sounds like to me is you're brilliant. In your past, when you had to step into public school you got bored quickly. It may not have felt that way, but is part of the reason you just didn't care. It was too easy.
Now, it sounds like you're falling into that same funk. You're too smart for what you're doing so it's pulling you down.
At least, that's what it sounds like to me. I don't think getting your degree or anything will make much difference for a while unless you're talking PhD or something. I would suggest taking this to a therapist and talking through it. Find out the real root of your issues.
But trust me, that degree doesn't mean anything ... obviously. |
The comment below also kept talking about this "deeper pain". You kinda hit the nail on the head a bit. This whole thing spurred from a young female in which I know. She got a new job a few weeks ago and she was talking about it etc. They require a degree for her position, and she's like, how in the world you expect to get a new job if you don't have a degree? As mentioned, tech hiring is something quite easy for me, but she's right, they would never pick me for her job. I actually care for this person, I see her a few times a week. She seems so happy and educated, or maybe the word is polished? Then my mind just went nuts, I just looked at that as more of a trigger than anything not the "deep down reason".
This other female that liked me quite a bit. She is 31, getting her masters and works for a bank, very smart female as well. I felt a little intimidated by her, but extremely proud and happy of her accomplishments.
Don't get me wrong, computer science isn't all that easy either. Takes quite a bit of time to understand everything.
I'm not sure if that's a deeper pain, or I haven't found it yet. It could very well be, my entire life I thought college was the way to go, and I just didn't do it because of my obsession with computer science in general.