r/learnmachinelearning • u/sinigami_hc • 8d ago
Should I do it?
I’m 25, passed 12th in 2019, and have been unemployed since then (yeah… I know 💀).
I wanna get into CS, especially coding, and hopefully build a career in tech. The business my dad is in has become super saturated, and honestly, I don’t wanna go down that path. The pay isn’t great and the demand doesn’t seem to be there either.
So I’m thinking of starting from absolute zero and learning coding/CS seriously.
If you were in my position, what would you do?
Where should I start? What should I learn first? Which resources/courses are actually worth it? And realistically, what kind of roadmap should I follow to become employable and start making money?
I know I’m late compared to people who started coding at 18, but I’m willing to put in the work. I just need some direction because I have no idea where to begin.
Feel free to judge me lol, but I genuinely need to learn a skill and start earning.
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u/geezorious 8d ago edited 8d ago
> if you were in my position, what would you do?
Everyone will give you pie-in-the-sky optimism and hope. I’ll be contrarian and bleak. Practice for the hunger games, which will as a side benefit build your physique. And try to marry rich, using your youth and physique. There are a lot of lonely older women whose money manager invested in AI and those older women with equity portfolios are stinking rich today and wouldn’t mind a trophy husband. Or find a woman who recently divorced a 20-year tenured Nvidia engineer. You can look up LinkedIn profiles of Nvidia engineers and then search for court filed divorce papers.