I’m a computer engineering undergrad in my finals and I really don’t care about applying for jobs, there’s so much competition and I hate just about every one of my classmates. I don’t want to spend hours making shitty bloated proprietary software but 99% of jobs seem to be like that. Is it possible to actually make a career in free software, should I just ditch out of tech and pick something else

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    6 months ago

    I have no experience making free software or even just software for a living. What I do have experience in is making a living in a historically cruel and enshittified industry while staying true to my values.

    So in order of complicatedness (low to high):

    • work at shitty company and make enough
    • work at shitty company and make bank
    • work at less shitty company
    • work self employed for multiple companies
    • make own company that is not shitty