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Experts Say Young People Should Learn to Code so They Can Get a Job 10 Years Ago (hard-drive.net)
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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, this is what I did years ago (although I'd been programming on and off since I was a teenager tbh). I'm not gonna eat the onion but the job market was a lot less competitive 10 years ago. I'm just fortunate because I became a senior developer around the time of COVID and I wasn't just starting out as an inexperienced dev.