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  • Yes, I barely if ever drink alcohol. I’m not social and hate talking to people or crowds, I’m also pretty ND so I can’t fake or pretend I give a shit about what other people are talking.

    Alcohol helps a lot, if I have to meet whoever and their friends and they’re asking me about work or how I would design an app that does blah blah I definitely need to be like 4 beers in to tolerate that conversation.

    That being said I don’t drink for things like school presentations or other events that require me to speak, like conference stuff. I just bite the bullet and it sucks, but I’d rather be sober and speaking coherently than feeling like I am.



  • TL;DR: Smart sibling ahead of the curve told me in 2011 that tech jobs will be the future and naturally I didn’t listen, fast forward to 2016 and my contract job laid me off so I started learning Python (as advised by smart sibling)

    I start making all sorts of stupid stuff mostly CLI programs, beginner alg problems. beginner alg console games and so on.

    Suddenly I realize I probably know enough to make something real, start slowing learning new things and always think “hmm a real software dev probably does x” and then try x.

    Went from CLI stuff to web APIs, then full stack websites, then platform specific gui programs, then learning C++.

    And at some point it clicked that this stuff is a lot easier than I thought (I had literally no concept of what programming was before)

    I apply for an associates in tech program, just before starting I decide to use Linux to get more familiar with dev technology.

    I picked Arch Linux btw, had some issues btw, overcame issues btw and then I landed a job during school as a dev and I kept using Linux as dev.

    So it was mostly about getting to understand dev landscape more

    I use CachyOS on my desktop (I game), and Arch Linux on laptop (by far the best laptop user experience with tiling wm)