When you spent your whole life hoping to go to college for a degree to start a development career.

Then, when you finally graduate after 4 years off and on, graduate into the beginning pandemic fearing economy and be unable to find a job for over 9 months.

Eventually, working on the family farm to stay productive but then feeling unable to leave after the job market finally comes back.

Anyone else?

While I was doing my degree, I only got a internship when i was finishing the course
Then, after I finish i was without a job and I needed to help my mother in her bar. For some months I was only studying and creating simple projects and then I make one to help me there with the bills and payments, a simple app that everyone does.
With that app I was able to get a job in q small company and properly start my career, it taken some months, almost 7 I guess

@rittmann , thanks for sharing. I was feeling particularly ranty when I posted. I'm glad you were able to get your career started even after delay. :)

I've been on the farm working for about two years now. My wife, fiance at-the-time, graduated at the same time as me and she got a job after about 10 months after graduation.

She is, fortunately, making enough for us to afford a mortgage to build a small home nearby on the farm.

I am still working on the farm, which isn't profitable enough to pay me atm. I've been building new tools(e-commerce, inventory management, etc.) and ways to make more money on the farm using my computer skills.

It shouldnt be too much longer before it is profitable, but the opportunity loss/gain weighs on me every now and then.

Now my family wants me to keep going on the farming stuff and I wonder if I will ever have a tech career or if this is just my version of one?

Either way, I am glad to have had the support and I have a lot I am grateful for.