I Guess I am a meme now

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Yesterday I spent around 16 hours learning JavaScript, I was tired as hell and my body ached in parts I didn't even know they existed. Even though I have alarms set every 2 hours to drink some water, stretch my legs and back, and go outside to get five minutes of sun and exercise my eyesight (the oculist said that I should stare at different places with different distances so my eyes get some work), yesterday was brutal, but since I was on such a good streak, I overreached and overworked myself, and even then I went to bed full of satisfaction and back cramps.

It's only 6 hours later that I am waking up (by myself, no alarms, I haven't used an alarm in forever) and I am writing this because I don't want to miss the point of this post. I am only doing it because right before I went to bed and to get my mind off the coding (which was no use, I ended up dreaming about Chess and JS Loops, a pretty anxious dream if you ask me), so I went into my usual meme website and I stumbled upon a meme that I remember perfectly but I just stored it on the back of my mind and it is only now that I saw it again that I realized...

I'm a meme now

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A couple of years ago when the Covid shenanigans began we all experienced lockdowns, freedoms were taken from us, and the job market plummeted. No matter where you are from, we all experienced these things at a different level and some countries will take five to ten years to recover from this social and economic re-engineering charade (if they ever recover).

In the US, due to the economic crisis, layoffs were on the next corner and people knew about it. One of the first job markets that plummeted was mining (not crypto, real mineral mining) not only because of the Covid measures but also because of Joe Biden's energetic policies that directly affected the coal mining business.

Thousands of people lost their job overnight and that was just the beginning of a snowball effect that would affect everyone in that country. Miners were desperate and with no job options but, since everything is political (everywhere) and since the coal mines and the whole energy topic was a big issue between former president Trump and current president Biden, this energetic reform was considered a win for the left, no matter whom it affected.

The media which is almost under control of the left didn't hesitate to write about this social and economic issue and their reply to all these miners who couldn't support their families anymore, was that they needed to "learn to code". Mining is a thing of the past, these miners need to acquire new skills, and the future is in coding and digital mining, not physical mining. I mean, it can't be that hard right? They should just change professions now that their job market is on the verge of disappearing, it doesn't matter what their current skills are and how old they are. Learn to code, miners.

But then, a few months later and once the real economic repercussions of the Covid measures really settled and the economy collapsed, one of the professions that took a huge hit was journalism in the United States. There was simply not enough money to sustain a big payroll across all the online and physical news business, especially when a big chunk of these reporters made a living writing about frugal, trivial, superfluous and irrelevant topics.

And the rest of the story, is just made up of memes...

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Now, if you made it til this point, you might be wondering why am I a meme?

Well, over the past two months I decided to change careers and leave the finance and marketing job market because I want to develop my own apps on Hive instead of depending on money influx and other people's coding skills. Why? Well I have no money to hire anyone, but I have tons of ideas and I know how to market them and how to compose an economic ecosystem that works, but every time I want to get someone on board into one of these ideas, the response (which is more than obvious and understandable) is that they can't work in exchange of future revenue; I mean, I get it, I wouldn't do that also, so my answer to myself to that situation was that I should learn2code.
And I've been doing it, and I am loving every step of the process.

So, I guess I am a meme now. Guess I'll die.

Now, before you ask or begin pointing fingers, think about this for a second.

We are both blogging and consuming content on an obscure, digital money-generating, anti establishment, pseudo-anarchy supporting, deep web money laundering related, taxation-is-theft promulgating, inflation-kills-economies believing, conspiracy-theories accepting, self-definition living, off-grid mentality acquired, North Korean crotchet weaving, revolutionary mindset thinking, ecosystem.

So, as I said, before you start pointing fingers at political stances, think of what I just said above.

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Wish many of the younger generation listened to the warnings, yes the angled transition wrapped up pandemic story to change to a 'new future'.... Glad you coding, well done!

Enjoy being a meme at the end of the day, last laugh!

@tipu curate

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Oh yeah, the agenda is real but I tend not to talk a lot about that topic on Hive. Even though we are a free speech friendly platform and there's no censorship, there are still some topics that will get people flared up and I am not up for the hazzle.

I'm a happy meme now, thanks for the comment Joan!

Edit: By the way, thanks for sending TIpu over here, it is much appreciated!

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Oh learning to dance around topics, tango keeps you out of trouble, meme also do the trick when not fully giving it all away 😁

Pleasure, and thanks for bringing that smile and something totally different to ponder.

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Yeah, memes are the best excuse to not fully commit to anything and yet, say everything :D

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Hahaha 😝

Your hustle is so impressive, your a real inspiration. People should follow you!

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Oh man, yesterday I went to bed at 3 am and I am dying, its 10 am, been a few hours awake and all I want to do is go to sleep but I know that if I do, I will screw over my sleep cycles and it will be a neverending story, so I'll have to fight the whole day with the need of just changing rooms and get a quick nap hahaha

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Usual IT hustle, work as long and as much as you want. AllDay and AllNight untitled.gif

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Loving it man, but it takes a toll at 32. Today i slept from 1 am to 11 am, too tired to even get woken up by the sun that wakes me up around 7/8 am haha

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This post is gold brother.

I’m learning myself through a local university. I understand that I probably don’t need a degree to do what I’d like but I need to earn one anyway.

So far it’s been insane amounts of HTML and CSS (the worst), Java, and JS. They haven’t done much past arrays and what not in the Java and JS classes. I’m assuming the hard parts are coming in the next two semesters. We’ll see. Once you get past loops, arrays, strings, concatenation etc, it’s easy to realize almost all languages are the same.

Good luck man.

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Thanks man, I am slowly getting back to my freewrite style where I try to include some humor and quirkiness, I am more amazed that your read it all than pleased that you liked it, but they are quite close :P

That's one thing I was worried about, most work places still require a uni certificate to hire you, and many master degrees (which I believe are more useful than the bachelors in any branch of studies) require an IT or similar certificate to enroll you. So I was debating myself about getting one but truth to be told, I don't think I have the time nor the cash to dedicate to it, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to.

I struggled a lot with loops and functions when I began because I wasn't following a schedule nor a learning timeline, but when I organized a syllabus and got a couple of JS courses, I was able to learn on the go. I am still far from the level I think I need, but I'm getting there.

Good to hear that you're also on this path, much luck man and glad to hear from you!

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I never received a bachelor's degree so that's why I'm on this path. I can agree with you on the Master's degree thing, but Master's degree programs also have many more scam degrees in their class than a BA or BS. I think Computer Science is safe from this (as are most hard science/tech degrees).

It's brutal so far and I'm not even in the hard stuff yet. I think making the time to balance everything has been the most significant challenge.

You don't have the time or the money. I have a theory that is the point of gaining certification. A degree is nothing more than proof that you're willing to endure bullshit and willing to pay for it as well. It's part of a flawed legacy system, but there's a game being played and whether you want to play or not, you're playing.

I ultimately want to get to the point where it is no longer necessary to do this.

I will say that at my particular school, the beginning and middle classes look the most cumbersome/challenging. The late classes look legit. Stuff that I'd be genuinely interested in like AI, mobile development, and even an elective course to use a raspberry pi to control stuff at your home.

You will be concatenating strings and reading arrays until your eyes bleed.

To quote a famous computer science guy, "The most important skill of any developer is the ability to efficiently use Google".

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Yeah trudat, I was once looking for a finance masters and I got so much fake uni publicity on instagram and whatsapp that it was insane.

Keeping things balanced can be a bitch, I'm struggling with the same but it is a great plus if your girl understands and supports that path which Im sure you have too.

The education system is broken, and even more broke in the US but it is what it is, and I'm glad you accepted it and just play by their rules, sometimes it is the only way to make progress, sadly.

Yeah I heard that one too, not sure who minted it but yeah, the skill I've polished the most has been googling haha

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So I’m not too deep in JavaScript (because it’s part of a much broader basic web development course.)

I’ll be honest here, I’m not enjoying the syntax for functions.

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<html>
<head>
  <title>Only imagination can not be automated ... yet</title>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    var myResponse = prompt("Are/were you in sales and marketing? (y/n)");
    if(myResponse.toUpperCase() == "Y" || myResponse.toUpperCase() == "YES") {
         myOut = "<bold> Your current/previous profession does not matter ./bold>";
    } else {
        myOut = "Everyone should ... "
    }
    document.write(myOut + "<i>Learn To Code</i>");
  </script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Basically, the only thing that can't be replaced by computers/code yet is imagination. Taking your background and adding the ability to code will only help you improve - and give your future more options..

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This comment is gold. I remember reading about an AI copilot and I thought damn, those devs who don't innovate are gonna be jobless in a couple of years and I wasn't even in the developer scene, now that I am I fully understand what you say and you're right, innovation, imagination and creativity will never be replaced by AI.

Sick short code you left, I was please I understood all of it. I have yet to think like that, to be able to think of irl situations and think of them in code form just like you did. Sick, thanks for the comment man!

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Glad you enjoyed it.

If you haven't already, take a look at https:\codecombat.com. Just register for the free version (I just authenticated using Google) and you'll be able to play through more than 100 levels from the very basic to some more complex stuff. I did it in python, but you can also code through it in javascript.

I did it a couple of months ago to pick up python and enjoyed it. And if you run into any difficulties, all of the puzzles are solved on GitHub, so you simply need to look there ... But take the time to understand what they did.

Cheers

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Ah nice, I will check it out once I feel ready for challenges of that type with JS. Thanks for the tip!

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hehe. and I just noticed I'd made a typo in my code. :-(.

That's why you should always code in an editor that points out your errors (close to real time). I'd recommend vscode for javascript/html stuff.

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I have VSCode for JS, HTML and CSS, once when I start with react and nodejs maybe I should think of other resources but in the meantime, thanks for the advice! :D

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I should learn to read first...If then i could code. here is some food fo thought because that is meta right now....!PIZZA

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Lol nothing to worry about, I don't even know how to speak :P

Thanks for the pizza!

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