Hardest thing about changing careers and becoming a programmer has to be going to the job you can't stand everyday. I'm a school teacher and I'm just tired of it. The unruly kids, the low pay, and the stupid administration with all their useless curriculum ideas that never help the children.
Hopefully I can fully get a grasp of Android/Java so I can leave this place this year.

Read that as "I can't stand" as in you'd be sitting all the time. Was about to do a plug for standing desks ...

@boomi 😂😂 I'm actually a PE teacher so I have no problem standing

I'm in the same boat. My 9-5 is mind numbingly boring.

@h3ll I guarantee you don't have to babysit 40+ clients in a room by yourself at 50 minutes at a time, and try whatever you can to get them to not fight each or hurt each other. I'm sure programming is hard but at least you get substantial compensation. I make $35k and don't have anything to show for it after every school year. I created nothing. And I live for the weekend to come cuz I dread the weekday.

I make about 57k at my 9-5, but I'm delivering pizzas nights and weekends when I want to be learning programming. Regarding the children, that's why I decided awhile ago to homeschool my own. Public schooling is a mess. Must be rough.

@Adamacious yeah you're so right public school is so messed up in this country. We plan on homeschooling our kids as well. The public school system is made to create lemmings and not creative thinkers. Nothing's gonna change because this country needs more mediocre thinkers to work and keep all these fast-food chains and Walmart's open.

@OutdatedPC yeah and funnel them in to overpriced universities when they could learn online for next to nothing. My children will not have student loan debt like I do.

@Adamacious Amen! I currently have 100,000 in student loan debt for a job that doesn't even pay me to pay it off. How stupid is that.