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[DorianDevelops]

Are you learning to code for the money?

[darrencartier]

Jonny Sins is a software developer? And he's helping us to get into the industry? Mind blown 🤯

[JD-vjgo]

I hate the whole passion thing. Do it for money. You know what 99% of programmers do? They use libraries to move data from one place to another. You're gonna update a text field to handle dashes in zip codes. Six months later you're gonna change it to remove dashes. And year after that you're gonna put the dashes back. After you've been doing it a few years the only challenge will be finding your own typos. Oh and learning how to do the exact same thing in a new framework or library. You're gonna get so so so sick of relearning how to do the same things every few years because a VP heard about this new cool thing and he's a new VP and he wants to make his mark with arbitrary and pointless changes. Who in the hell would be passionate about rewriting the middle ware every couple years cause your vendor changed their json (or more likely XML)? Efffin' nobody. But meh don't worry about it. You can sit in a nice air conditioned room listening to music and make 3 or 4 times the median income to add a table to a database or move a text box 2 pixels to the left.

[Chewy]

I know from experience that doing something you at the very least find interesting is so much better than doing something you find boring. Money is a great motivation but like you said its probably not the best idea to have it as your only motivation.

[sonicbuddy]

Lol at the Johnny sins pics and office space memes. Money/financial stability is def a big motivator for my future family. But it’s also exciting because of the potential to build your own side projects

[raycroxton]

I'm really glad you said this. I talk to one of my buddies, who was also a programmer, about the gatekeeping that I see even as a person who's still learning." If you feel like you need to take a break then maybe programming is not for you" it's just one of many cringe comments that I've heard people say. Can be a real turn-off I tell you

[xA]

For me, programming began as a hobby and it eventually became a skill that I used professionally as a systems analyst. I have seen people who got into IT for the money; they were almost unanimously insufferable as coworkers. They were not problem solvers, they were problem makers.

[Pyrate_Of_Las_Vegas]

I'm learning to Code so I can hopefully do something that pays more than what I am making now.
The fact that I enjoy Coding and Web Development makes it that much better.

[kompanjonac]

0:31 Lol love how you put your picture in all of those professions

[Showmatic]

I was studying Cybersecurity and preparing to get my A+, Sec+, Net+ certs and all of it was just SOOOO BORING, as you said. That's what drove me to programming as well. And I've heard the same thing from quite a lot of others. Cert chasing is like a feeder program into programming and web dev.

[radumusat]

I think there actually is a combination between the two. I like coding, but honestly if pay was bad, I'd rather not do it.
Getting paid for something you love doing, does not mean it will always be enjoyable.
I started out as a video-games (something I'm passionate about) tester, but after 2 years of doing the same thing over and over like testing if a hand-grenade will make the same sound in 15 different environments every day months on end, all of this on minimum wage, is not fun...

[David_]

What you mentioned is exactly what I did with the networking field. Started studying for certs twelve years back, hated it but continued, and now I make well over 100k. I still don't like it, but it pays me very well. I'm currently learning programming to maybe make a career switch.

[rabihmoumne]

I know most people will say they will work for the money, but the truth is that if a person enjoys his work, money should not be in between the person and his job. I worked so many jobs in my life, one of them was a PC technician, but over a couple of years, I got bored. I wanted something interesting that I would like, so I found web development was something I would be interested in.

[eastsideozzy]

Man, this channel is straight fire. stay this real, because its taken me 3 years of MULTIPLE youtube channels on development to be able to weed out the click bate from the real. I even heard another developer on LinkedIn the other day say something along these lines... He said...

"I literally only coded maybe 2 hours today and haven't learned anything new in the past 2 months" "Can't believe I get paid this much for this"

This was refreshing in a sea of these people talking about learning 6 languages and coding for 8 hours a day and then coding for "fun" after work. I'm like... bro, I got kids and a wife and hobbies, not trying to do IT stuff after IT stuff all day.... Know what I mean?

[SHrehman]

Dude finally played in to the johnny sins joke. Loved this vid.

[aaronakiyama]

Love your videos, man. You're the only one in this space that I've found so far who just makes videos as a normal dude. Everyone else seems to pretend to be some kind of mystic. Thanks for being real 👍

[josh]

I think I’m lucky, I actually love programming. It has its ups and downs, sometimes I hate it when I’m stuck on a dumb bug for hours on end. But I love the satisfaction of fixing a problem and understanding something I didn’t understand before.

I think people need to also understand that having passion in something doesn’t mean you’ll love it 24/7. Passion, along with anything you love in life will not be perfect.

Also, I agree with the money thing. I initially would have never wanted to major in computer science if it didn’t pay much. Good on you for being a real one.

[christianr.]

This was good to hear. Feelings are something that are so out of our grasp sometimes and unreliable. But having a stable income is something that I feel everyone wants as a base line. Programming is something you don't need to go to college to learn AND it pays a lot, those two reasons are enough to at least consider it

[tom-]

You're such a breath of fresh air! I've been doing this for nearly 10 years professionally. I still see job ads for senior engineers where they want someone with passion and a personal github. It's staggering. If you've ever worked with some does constantly code in their spare time, you'll find they try their best to ruin every project by adding in risky new technologies and dependencies for the sake of personal fulfillment, get bored, and go to work at a start-up while you try and turn their mess into something commercially viable. People with passion are actively worse, but still we're bombarded with job specs apparently written for children.

[blocktube]

🤣🤣 if you noticed the picture of the teacher, you might not go to heaven .