@coolboymew @vriska That's pretty difficult for an autistic person like me, but I'm trying my best.

@xianc78 @vriska I have 0 social skills, so yeah, it was hard for me. Took a fucking year to get a job after being fucked by the internship

@coolboymew @vriska It's really hard. I also didn't have time to work on programming projects in my free time due to school and my part-time job. I haven't finished a hobby project since high school and those projects were shitty clones of old Atari games.

@xianc78 @vriska you want those in the future. I'm not a programmer but I know that a good portfolio will do you good at the right places on top of sharpening your skills. I got a programmer friend that does none of this and unsurprisingly, he had a harder time with finding and keeping a job. Thankfully he seems to do ok lately, he somehow landed at some place where people are apparently worse than he is

@PhenomX6 @vriska @coolboymew Yeah. Throughout my college career, I realized that college is bullshit and I would encourage anyone to try to find a different path if they can. I only went because my grandparents have invested enough over the decades to pay for our tuitions. I don't know how it would've went if I had to pay for college myself, especially since I didn't have a job back in high school (I was the kid who sold food when the teachers weren't looking, but that wasn't enough).

I wish gifted high schools were more common here. It would at least be a better alternative to college for those who are "gifted", but there seems to be a lot of controversy around them because of their exclusive nature.