Live with me; and I'll teach you how to program
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Just do it. Pick a random language, make a game, make a terminal script that prints sine and cosine, go and pick up a math textbook, read Wikipedia.
You'll get there. Don't worry about the details.
Don't know what sine and cosine are? Stop worrying about becoming a rockstar programmer. Go and learn about the glorious world we live in. The job will come later.
You were not born to be an employee.
Why?
Because without being able to teach yourself, programming is a sisyphean task. What happens when you're done 'learning to program'? You just stick at that level forever?
I've come to believe that autodidactism is a function of enthusiasm rather than a certain skill.
I learned to program by banging my head against the wall over and over. I never got sick of it. I know that I'd have become a better programmer faster if someone had saved me from a few of those head injuries and helped me take forward steps earlier.
> You'll get there. Don't worry about the details.
Actually, if you don't actively seek out well-written resources and possible-to-set-up environments, you won't. You'll run out of time because you have to go to the job that pays your rent. You'll get stuck and distracted because you are trying to sleep-deprive yourself in order to buy more time (doesn't work. learning well requires sleep.)
Finding a well-written resource like Think Python[1] has a real and significant impact on someone's ability to learn to program alongside all the other stressors of life.
So what happens after a person is done with introductory resources. Are they stuck at that level? No. They now have a map of the terrain of all the things they don't know and they could teach themselves. They have become better at teaching themselves more things in that domain.
I think we have a fundamental disagreement here in that I don't believe that the answer to having a bad work-life balance is to try to increase your efficiency outside of work.
If your job is taking over your life, you owe it to yourself and to the entire labouring population to try to fix that situation.
Coping strategies are rarely good long-term solutions.
How? That requires negotiating power. Negotiating power requires either collective action or an individually having better alternative to working their current job. Collective action is risky because you could be fired and lose your $42,382 income.
What good is said income if you have no free time, and no savings building up to produce future free time?
Let's call it a day here - you think I'm insane, I think you're insane, we won't reach a consensus.
Be well and have some strawberries.
Well, for starters it gives you a dry place to sleep at night and food to put in your belly.
Here's a (IMHO) better proposition: Program with me and I'll teach you how to program. It's called Open Source and you don't need to move to get there.
Paid internships with assigned mentors are also available through Summer of Code, Outreachy or project specific programs:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ http://www.outreachy.org/ http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/
OpenHatch is a great resource too:
Whose boundaries does it violate or threaten to violate?
I believe im not in the target Group or simply not rich enough :-)
(E.g. 10 days would even cost more than I actually earn in One year)
Or: it's a fun entry. Any ideas?
Edit: clarification: earn in One year, after eating, living and so on.
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2) I don't work 24 hours a day, so co-living doesn't give me (or a guest) anything extra. Why couldn't they book my time for a way, work with me that day, and then go stay somewhere else?