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What skills do you have? What are you doing to improve them?

What job do you want? What's preventing you from getting a position somewhere in that field?

I'm assuming you're putting a lot of work into achieving your goals, what are the obstacles you're coming up against?

Based on his profile, he might live in Brazil which is now an economic basket case.

So that might be his biggest obstacle.

There are so many substandard developers making $100k in the u.s. that would never be able to find job elsewhere in the world, those of us who live in the U.S. should really be grateful despite all of its shortcomings.

The distribution of substandard developers making a purchasing-power equivalent of $100K (allowing for free healthcare, college education, lower housing costs) is probably similar in most countries with a well-developed IT sector.

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