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Personally, I've always loved the process of taking things apart, understanding how they work and putting them back together. I turned that into a degree in mechanical engineering and eventually a career in power plant operations. Couldn't be happier with my work than I currently am. Its WORK but I don't hate it and I feel like I'm doing something important.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was working at a hotel job part time while doing a bachelor's business degree when I finished the exam prep up to a point where I didn't see a benefit and tried out codecademy.

I had an incredibly pure joy of just creating shitty webpages and doing assignments, learned some javascript and then it hit me.

I started a compsci degree, stopped working and got some student loans and overkilled every programming assignment. I basically thought "If programming is the most valuable part, I'm just gonna max it at the cost of everything else" and it was a fantastic choice.

I applied to all the jobs in Iceland, nobody took me in so I started applying to bunch of jobs in all of Europe. Ended up landing my first job in Germany and that's where it my career started.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you remote or did you move to Germany?

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I moved but then covid hit and I moved back to Iceland and got myself a remote job in the US as a full-time contractor.

Process is pretty easy for EU/EEA citizens.