But hey, there's no danger on the roof!
monounity
joined 8 months ago
I started out with Basic on a computer sporting MS DOS, a Pentium 75 and 16 mb ram! Then I continued down the rabbit hole and discovered HTML and that led to the newly invented JavaScript and here I am today programming full time. I can't believe it's only 10 years ago I started out in the 90's. Right? Guys?
That's a common joke for us that live in Scandinavia/Finland, people from abroad keep asking us if we have polar bears in the streets. The answer is no, we don't, polar bears don't live in our country. We do have regular brown bears though.
I have a junior colleague like that, he's even confessed out loud that he chose to become a programmer because he thought it was a good career. He got his first job and immediately realized that he absolutely hated it but by then, according to him, it was too late to change careers, better just power through it.
His code is so sloppy, he always does the bare minimum to get the task done (for example copy and pasting the same code seven times, with bugs, instead of creating a new function), he really doesn't care. I've been assigned to clean up after him so many times it's not even funny.
Yeah, I had the exact same problem as OP, except that I didn't lose my virginity. Also, Gentoo won't boot.