This is a brief story of what I did these years after not becoming programmer in workforce.

Notably I am in my mid-40 and not doing full-time programmer since 2013. Well, I did do a part-time programmer job in 2020.

I used to be a VB guy, VB6 and VB.NET. But after I quit IT job industry, I spent time to run family business, traveled extensively to Australia, doing dispatch rider for 4 years and... start learning computer fundamentals by doing 32-bit and 64-bit low-level programming.

I miss the full-time programmer job. What I did as hobbyist programmer cannot replace the professional job skill demanded by IT companies these days.
I wish I could leverage .NET C# effortlessly compared to programming menial work using Assembly language where I have to write different source code for each CPU architecture and each operating system. It simply is a lot of work, and not easily scalable. Cross compiler and virtual machine bytecode is really good here.

With my age coming to 50, I think no IT company will hire me anymore, especially now is not VB world anymore.
In the mean time, what I can do is keep doing self-learning, understanding the computer fundamentals.

(End of story)

This post has been edited by MatQuasar: Nov 6 2023, 07:24 PM

Maybe you're right, I almost mastered ASP.NET in 2004, but I resigned and gave up before I had the chance to master it.
If I mastered ASP.NET back then, my programming career will be different, because ASP.NET web programming is even relevant until today.

Thanks for your comment. Maybe except my ASCII art animation project is a different idea:

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=106356741

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This post has been edited by MatQuasar: Dec 29 2023, 03:56 PM