You’re digging a hole for yourself. HN is not the place to brag about your superstar coding skill. There are probably literally thousands of people here who have more impressive credentials.
In school, many of us were use to being the smartest kid in the room. It’s just like being the star basketball player in high school and going to college and being surrounded by a dozen kids who were also the best in their high school.
For instance:
I know there are thousands of other developers on here with similar background, many who are much better than I am but I started off good. I took AP C/C++ freshman year of high school and was in the top of my class etc.
Bragging about being good at C based on how well you did in programming class is not saying too much. High school programming classes have historically been easy for anyone who was already a programming geek. Do you know how many of us wasted time on comp.lang.c on Usenet before the web even existed?
On any technical subject that’s posted here, you could have experts in the field that could put either of us to shame.
I don’t think I was a special snowflake, but by the time I was 14 (1988), I turned my nose up at any “high level” language because they were too slow and non performant for the little hobby projects I wanted to do on my 8 bit computers. I had already been doing assembly for 3 years. A lot of the grey beards around here can tell you much more impressive stories.
The whole point of this lecture is that your professional experience is no more impressive than plenty of people I’ve worked beside every day and certainly not any more impressive than people on HN.
I am not trying to discourage you. But as has been said by myself and others, you don’t have a consistent easy to follow resume that tells a story about what your area of expertise is, how you stand out from dozens of other applicants and I couldn’t tell where you would be a good fit from reading it.
In school, many of us were use to being the smartest kid in the room. It’s just like being the star basketball player in high school and going to college and being surrounded by a dozen kids who were also the best in their high school.
For instance:
I know there are thousands of other developers on here with similar background, many who are much better than I am but I started off good. I took AP C/C++ freshman year of high school and was in the top of my class etc.
Bragging about being good at C based on how well you did in programming class is not saying too much. High school programming classes have historically been easy for anyone who was already a programming geek. Do you know how many of us wasted time on comp.lang.c on Usenet before the web even existed?
On any technical subject that’s posted here, you could have experts in the field that could put either of us to shame.
I don’t think I was a special snowflake, but by the time I was 14 (1988), I turned my nose up at any “high level” language because they were too slow and non performant for the little hobby projects I wanted to do on my 8 bit computers. I had already been doing assembly for 3 years. A lot of the grey beards around here can tell you much more impressive stories.
The whole point of this lecture is that your professional experience is no more impressive than plenty of people I’ve worked beside every day and certainly not any more impressive than people on HN.
I am not trying to discourage you. But as has been said by myself and others, you don’t have a consistent easy to follow resume that tells a story about what your area of expertise is, how you stand out from dozens of other applicants and I couldn’t tell where you would be a good fit from reading it.