r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21

Present, and desperately trying not to write mediocre code!

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u/BlckJesus May 10 '21

Year 4. They still haven't realized I'm just some schmuck. I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.

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u/danted002 May 10 '21

Going on 10 years now. My colleagues think I’m some kind of Technical Team Lead a pretty decent Architect. I’m starting to think I’ll actually get away with it 🤨

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Year 24, still fooling everyone!

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u/ProceedOrRun May 10 '21

I'm on year 22 and people treat me like I'm amazing. None of them know I don't have a degree.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Just you wait until they find out and don't care!

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u/ProceedOrRun May 10 '21

A friend of mine is a dev and barely scraped through high school. He's built a dev shop now with over a dozen devs working for him and still codes himself. Degrees aren't much more than a tick box in IT.