I took a data entry job, my short attention span made it excruciating, so I had an enormous pool of motivation to automate the crap out of all their data entry. Between all the stuff I implemented I cut down the time data entry took to about 1/5 of what it was. I then got an all-expense-paid trip to corporate, had drinks with the Systems Technology manager who was in charge of internal software, and got a full time programming job at corporate, writing internal software solutions and had a huge amount of leeway to explore and contribute to OSS projects that might benefit the company, which helped me build a great portfolio and resume of various tech that big businesses use.
So, I guess my conclusion is that eventually, if you can't find any programming work, there's no shame in taking other jobs to pay the bills, and there's always a chance you can use the connections you make at any job to leverage your way into a programming position.
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I took a data entry job, my short attention span made it excruciating, so I had an enormous pool of motivation to automate the crap out of all their data entry. Between all the stuff I implemented I cut down the time data entry took to about 1/5 of what it was. I then got an all-expense-paid trip to corporate, had drinks with the Systems Technology manager who was in charge of internal software, and got a full time programming job at corporate, writing internal software solutions and had a huge amount of leeway to explore and contribute to OSS projects that might benefit the company, which helped me build a great portfolio and resume of various tech that big businesses use.
So, I guess my conclusion is that eventually, if you can't find any programming work, there's no shame in taking other jobs to pay the bills, and there's always a chance you can use the connections you make at any job to leverage your way into a programming position.