The Relatable Struggles of an Always Learning, Job Hunting, Software Engineer

Kelly Becker
3 min readOct 24, 2020

Told through the lens of hilarious memes

  1. When you are just minding your own business, grinding through algorithm problems and get slapped in the face with a bad loop implementation…rude!

2. Stages of feelings during compilation or project deployment or learning something new

3. When you realize you made a mistake and just want to return to exactly where you were 5 minutes ago. You slowly start to realize your code is F#*@ed, but hope for the best!

4. When you invite all your work/bootcamp/CS friends over just to be social and forget about programming for a little…dream on!

5. When you realize you relate way too much with JavaScript…and it is exhausting!

6. Trust me, your roommates know when it’s not going so well!

7. When you finally call it quits and try to fall asleep

8. When your work from home partner casually tries to converse with you with a question like ‘have you seen Kanye’s latest tweet?’, and the brilliance you have been cooking up for the last hour disappears.

10. Trying to jump back into a project and add a feature

11. Looking back at code you wrote 30 days ago with all the ‘helpful’ comments to make it easy to jump back in and pick up where you left off

12. Debugging is fun!

Inspiration
All Meme’s were found from the following blog, standard google searches, and a variety of slack and discord channels! Thank you to those who have and those who continue to inspire me!

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Kelly Becker

Solutions Engineer | Former Healthcare Clinician. You can often find me biking around the city in my sparkle helmet or pretending I’m a Top Chef