Another month since my last post, and it’s been quite the month.
On surveying the ground and the future in regards to my Coding Journey, ultimately resulting in a position accompanied by income, it started to dawn on me that this wasn’t going to happen.
Scouring social media and company employment opportunities shows that the “tech shortage” of the world is a problem of the industry’s own making. No one actually wants someone to do a job. Everyone needs to be a jack of all trades with multiple years experience in contrasting disciplines, and being a master in each.
Unless you’re supremely lucky, or happen to know someone who knows someone, or you fill a demographic reach, the “tech journey” is a road of futility and unfulfilled hope.
I had hoped that my experience, need to learn, and desire in tech would ultimately lead me to being able to use what I have to benefit someone else, some organisation. But the “tech world” seems to be like all other industries. Tech companies want someone who can do everything for the smallest of salaries so they can make the big profits while making you a slave to ever-increasing-bills.
We live in a world where Money is King, where the haves get more and the have-nots get less. Tech is no different to elsewhere on that. No one cares about each other, or benefiting others with what they know and can do. Society isn’t like that. Society is the great money-chaser. A person’s value is in how much they’re worth. Nothing more, nothing less.
It’s sad, but it’s unchangeable. Least of all by an idealist with a creative mind, a willingness to serve, and a need to learn. It’s not a fight anyone can win. I should probably have figured this out sooner.
But I did figure it out, and I came to the conclusion that I was going to run out of funds and displease the Great God Money. I saw a future of continuing no income, an empty hole in the savings, no food on the table, bills not paid, and probably ending up living on the street. All in the name of pursuing the tech journey.
That way lies folly.
And so I’ve ended up with no real alternative but be guided by the old mantra “if you can’t beat them, join them”. Rejoining the ratrace, the job market. Despite what I can do, the lack of certification means that I can’t utilitise what I can do in the world of employment. It’s back to taking any job that I can get, hope for a half-decent income, and appease the Great God Money such that I can survive until I don’t any more.
My coding journey will suffer from this. I won’t have sufficient time to dedicate to it, and the one thing “learning” always needs is time and dedication.
This blog will stand as testament to my dreams, my hopes, and my upskilling journey but, going forward, it’ll be reduced to blogging about a hobby / personal journey of coding and I can’t honestly see there being too much of that.
