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wherearetheyhuh

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wherearetheyhuh··on Ask HN: Can I save my career?
I can build stuff sure, but the lack of interest of my non-professional stuff in the past leaves me a little jaded.
wherearetheyhuh··on Ask HN: Can I save my career?
> f you can actually hack linux, and you can't get a job, or can't get a job you like, etc. -- something else is going on

Well yeah that’s the thing. Can I at the current moment no? Could I with some time invested in it? Probably. But throwing together a kernel module that no one cares about and having an actual contribution are two different things.

> that i've seen, most programmers who can't find work are either not real programmers, or not interested in it anymore/burned out

If I had to guess, I’d say I’m a mix of the first two.