You last visited: 10.07.13 at 20:47
Hello friends,
It's great to see many of the old regulars (OGs) still visit.
So what has cheatos been doing these years? well here goes:
A lot has passed since 2013, I had underwent 4 surgeries (2 critical and 2 non-critical), sadly this affected my University grades (graduated with sub 3.0 GPA) and affected my life overall. Post the surgeries, I began to develop some kind of depression.
I finished University, got my degree and couldn't get a stable job as an Electrical Engineer (1 month quit, 3 months quit...etc), everything was a sales position for a foreign already-engineered product, I hated it. I freelanced, mainly PHP CodeIgniter/Laravel and backend projects for a almost a year for a (family) client who didn't pay me anything and I didn't give his projects back lawl , but at least I got a shitton of experience on backend and frontend development.
After that, I asked my family for money and went to the United Kingdom and got a Master's degree in Software Engineering on the hopes I could escape my third world shithole country and do some real engineering. I landed a few interviews, some with no-name companies and 2 with really high profile companies that every pleb dream to work with but I got rejected every time. Sometimes I got rejected in as fast as 7 hours (probably filtered by ATS systems) or filtered at the "Do you have the right to work in X country?".
I thought I was the brightest kid in programming, I wasn't. It felt so shit to be rejected by a 3 years experience younger-than-me guy with an undergrad degree in Geography. Well, it's their country, their rules. In the end, I couldn't take a Brit guy's job, I thought with the dey took'er jerbs memes, I'd have a great shot at getting a work visa, boy i was so wrong.
Anyway, I went to the regular check-up for my post-surgeries and the NHS nurse noticed something wrong, the disease is back, she goes to the next door and the consultant doctor sees me and confirms it. I was due for another 2 surgeries. By now I had developed severe depression, always rejected and a diseases wants me dead. I said mhm okay, the UK should be an advanced country, absolutely nothing could go wrong, right? Nope, the NHS is underfunded and understaffed and I had to wait 2 months for MRI scan and 4 months for the consultant to see me again. I wait. The consultants needs 1 more month to book the surgery but sadly it's time to leave the UK. I was able to pass all subjects and score an 80 in the thesis so money wasn't wasted in the end.
I return back home, do the first surgery, success, apply for an ok government job and I get accepted because I'm overqualified now.
SB-I days were a great time of my younger years (10.06.09 holy, it's been 9 years already!, I was 15 when I joined, now 24). I learned a lot in this forum. So far, even in my professional life, I wasn't able to reproduce what 16 years old me did (thousands of software downloads here).
I hope you're doing better than me @anon, @sbfreak, @mihai, @instab, @hellman and others
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