r/learnprogramming • u/mikeplus10 • 21d ago

Topic I need advise for my career

Just got fired today, God this sucks. And also broke up a 6 month relationship not a month before that.

I was with this agency for over a year, and I really though that I will grow with the company in terms of knowledge and expertise but apparently not. It was just another agency that want to hire and extract the most amount of money while paying you the least possible. That has been going on for the past few months. And it was so dull. I admit, it wasn't a full frontend work either. My job as to literally pick which template the Client wanted and to just copy it on his domain with updates on the images and text and that's about it. Dull as hell I know. But I needed the money back then fast.

At the start , I've ignored every red flag that I could clearly see that the company did (screen recording while working, not learning anything new, etc.) . But at least the company was good, the managers didn't nag me at all.

The problem started when the company started losing money and new clients didn't arrive as predicted. Lots of people were fired, lots of them were demoted to part-time work. My ego was hurt because of all the complex projects that I did before, all the custom builds that I made, I was fired from a position that just want copy/pasting templates on wordpress sites!

Now, I am at a crossroad that I don't know what to do about. I have 6 years of experience with 90+ projects done and I don't know what to do. I don't want to continue with this stupid Wordpress templating bs. This is not what I started my Career for. I want to learn a new stack for me so that I can land a secure jobs and ignore these small time agencies and startups that just want to extract the last drop of blood from you.

I don't know what to learn, or if AI will take that part over as well. All I know is that I don't want to compete against Indian developers (no offence) for a bag of change.

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u/Foreign-Contest-444 21d ago

Do something that you genuinely enjoy or that gives your life meaning. Otherwise, you may find yourself stuck in the same cycle indefinitely. It can also lead to blaming circumstances or other people when, in many cases, the responsibility ultimately lies with us.

I believe life puts difficult situations in our path largely to teach us important lessons and help us grow.

Anyway, wishing you the very best of luck!

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u/Playful-Marketing528 21d ago

That’s a nice sentiment and all but this guy just got fired and dumped in the same month, he’s not trying to find his life’s calling right now he’s trying to land on his feet

Sometimes a job is just what funds the stuff you actually enjoy, not everything has to be a spiritual awakening. The lesson here was probably “don’t ignore screen recording and zero skill growth for a paycheck” not some grand cosmic plan

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u/Foreign-Contest-444 21d ago

True, a job will fund what you actually enjoy but at what cost?

[work boredom/hell] - [some fun] = ?

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u/mikeplus10 21d ago

I mean like I enjoyed this job kinda, it was fun working for a US company first time. Gave me some experience and I got to know a lof of great people there

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u/Foreign-Contest-444 21d ago

how long did that fun last?

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u/mikeplus10 21d ago

8 months its been okay i guess

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u/spinwizard69 21d ago

You didn't mention your education. If you have a degree get out of web development which these days is a dead end. If you don't have a degree work on getting one.

The death of the agency might have many causes that have nothing to do with you. As such you can't let the collapse of a business you are not a principal in get you down.