• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    2 years ago

    In hindsight I would have been much happier, healthier and wealthier if I had just gotten a construction job or something after HS instead of torturing myself through a CS degree lmao

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        2 years ago

        Yep. Was a welder, now a software dev. There are pros and cons to both, but overall I’m way happier now.

        That said, this is anecdotal - different strokes and all that.

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        2 years ago

        I’ve grown up doing hard manual labor most of my free time and let me tell ya, I vastly prefer that over taking exams and being stressed 24/7 for years.

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      2 years ago

      It’d be nice if we didn’t have to pigeon-hole ourselves into one skillset in order to survive.