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Crazy Mike
Sep 16, 2005

Now with 25% more kimchee.
I'm getting about $58k gross $43k net for about 6 hours a day of no productivity and 1 hour of messing around with SSRS reports. I'm projected for promotion and raise to $67k in a year and a half.

I need to get my rear in gear and get my skills better. I'm probably going to give myself another two years here to get back on track. How can I get my motivation red bulled up and get from a 50-70k bottom tier programmer to a 80-100k+ productive programmer at somewhere like Microsoft or BAE? My GitHub is embarrassingly sparse. How do I find projects that need work within my skill set? I've also got to bug my coworkers to find some more programming work for me and understand ASP.NET and JavaScript better.

Do I want to escape this comfortably secure mid wage job risking a shot for high wages when I don't have the rock star coding skills and no technical degree?

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