I Introduced It Myself

The expectation vs reality of programming career progression! First year: bright-eyed, hopeful, thinking you'll build the next billion-dollar app. Fourth year: slightly chubbier, dead inside, realizing you're just fixing the same bugs in legacy code while your IDE slowly consumes your RAM. The title "Made Alot Of Money" is the ultimate ironic cherry on top—because the only thing that's grown is your caffeine tolerance and collection of Stack Overflow bookmarks. The real money was the existential dread we accumulated along the way!

The duality of a developer's life in four panels. First, you're quietly sobbing over bugs. Then a kind soul offers help. But the moment you open Stack Overflow? Pure existential crisis. Suddenly your simple question feels like asking why water is wet, and you'd rather abandon your entire career than face the wrath of keyboard warriors who'll crucify you for not knowing about some obscure flag in a command you've never used. The "..." bubble says everything words can't—that moment of pure dread before hitting submit.

When NASA engineers reject SpaceX but embrace TabX, you know they've finally discovered the true rocket science of code indentation. Sure, launching humans to Mars is impressive, but have you ever seen a perfectly aligned codebase? That's the real moonshot. Developers will literally fight interstellar wars over spaces vs. tabs while their code is still riddled with nested if-statements that look like the aftermath of a keyboard explosion.

Oh sweetie, you think debugging is a SKILL? *flips hair dramatically* Senior devs don't need fancy tools or hours of painful searching. We were literally PRESENT at the crime scene when the atrocious code was birthed into this cruel world! We've watched in horror as each line of that monstrosity was typed, knowing EXACTLY which part would eventually bring the entire system crashing down like my will to live during a Monday morning stand-up. It's not experience, darling - it's TRAUMA with a LinkedIn endorsement.

Content verificationSpinner.end (true); await helpers. delay (2000); "Oh, why are you slowing down the program just so people have to stare at your checkmark?" Fuck you, I worked hard on getting that fucking checkmark to not be a piece of shit, and actually cancel properly when an error occured. I put blood, sweat, and tears into getting the Spinner class working, so I am going to leave it on the screen for people to see. I don't give a fuck if you think it's stupid, I will show my fucking checkmark for 2 seconds, you will stare at the fucking checkmark for 2 seconds, and you will be fucking happy that you stared at the fucking checkmark for 2 seconds. Literally, criticize any other part of my program, and I will be open to understanding and disucssion. You can call it trash, junk, say it's inefficient garbage, say I'm a piece I of shit who can go die in a hole, and I'd be fine with that. But I swear, as soon as you come for my decison to show a checkmark for 2 seconds, I am throwing fucking hands.

Content Pranay Pathole PPathole Find bug, write fix Click 'run', bug is still there Pull hair out over why obvious solution isn't working Question career choices Realise you didn't hit 'build and run'