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How do I not become a web developer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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First of all. This is not an insult to the web developers. I live in Nepal where most of the job vacancies are for fronted/backend developers. Even through referees I only get web dev related roles for intern. Every path leads to rome here.

I have no other interests except linux, scripting and web scraping and that's a big problem. I really have no idea what I should learn or make. I am in my final year and I am feeling this sense of urgency which is annoying and overwhelming.

What should I do? I want to learn about Linux and OSes in depth but I also need to be employable. Also, after getting a job how do you learn new things. Since your job will be taking a huge chunk of your time. Education is a scam and I am a removed.

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[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Can't give any solution because I had the same problem pretty much where I live and I just went into web development because I gotta eat.

Though I can say that nobody stops you from doing all kinds of programming in your free time, open source also gives you a lot of interesting things to work on if you have the time to dive in and try to get your hands dirty with a project. There definitely are differences in common practices and concepts when going from web dev to other areas of computer science, but you can always find parallels and similar logic. It definitely would help to be able to properly study new things, but it's both very time consuming and expensive, so that's not a solution for everyone.