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Am I cooked?

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I need help and tips , please don’t judge. I am 17 born 2006. And I am from Sweden . I dropped out of high school April 2023. I dropped out not because it is boring or I don’t have the energy, I dropped out because I believe in my self more , and I always hated school since 5 grade, I was never bullied or anything like that . But I always felt like I can do better on my own I hated school with my whole heart, I remember days I cried and begged mom to let my stay at home cuz when I got to school my whole day was bad , I started to get depressed and stuff because I knew I can do better but something is just holding me back from liking school. I have always been a problem solver and creative , I could always find a way to get shit to work not matter how. I have been coding on my own since 6 grade , just for fun I actually didn’t know that you could become a developer without collage , but a teacher told me that u could so when I dropped out I just started to take coding more seriously, and started doing project on project and get better and better , my dream is to become a front end developer. But now lately I started going out more and more with friends and doing less and less coding . It just feels like I am not going anywhere even when I learn new technology’s and make progress . And now when everyone says that ai is taking over it just feels like I am cooked , i have worked for a startup for free so i know how to collaborate and take responsibility, but when i search for jobs I feel I am even better than what they are looking for and I still get denied. And now I become 18 in a couple months. And I feel like the everything is going shit for me and I am going to end like a homeless person . I know people that is about to graduate high school and hang out with them daily and they even say it their self I know more than them I know more math , more coding, more English and Swedish , but I just can’t go to school I just won’t . So is it over for me ? Can I still become a developer?
Small| One-time job2/29/2024