When I look back 20 years, I wish I had done something with wood instead.
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what's a wood?
Dead tree's meat.
Oh, you meant wood literally ๐ญ
It's a material, pretty nice to use. I hear it grows on trees.
Edit: for your actual question, how do you keep learning? Make it part of your job. If your employer doesn't favor continuous improvement, find a new one.
It's not too late.
I enjoy being a linux sysadmin. I still do some web full stack, but largely for my own team and I have full autonomy over what tools I use. Can't be many other people writing websites in perl today.
Haha 'perl', isn't it a scriptting language? I wish I could choose which tools I get to use. Do you work for a startup?
Can't give any solution because I had the same problem pretty much where I live and I just went into web development because I gotta eat.
Though I can say that nobody stops you from doing all kinds of programming in your free time, open source also gives you a lot of interesting things to work on if you have the time to dive in and try to get your hands dirty with a project. There definitely are differences in common practices and concepts when going from web dev to other areas of computer science, but you can always find parallels and similar logic. It definitely would help to be able to properly study new things, but it's both very time consuming and expensive, so that's not a solution for everyone.
how do you learn new things
There is more to learning than just school.
When you start a job, there are all kinds of things you will learn: New tools, how to work in a professional environment, new processes and techniques. Don't feel bad if you come back from work each day and don't feel like opening a book or some tutorial. You are absolutely still learning, even if you come home and can't stand the thought of touching a keyboard. I used to beat myself up about not coding in my free time or not studying new books, but starting a career involves so many more life changes than just "I get a paycheck now". It can take years before you feel motivated to learn again, and that's OK.
I don't know what the work culture in Nepal is like, but if you're not running a 996 rat race, you'll eventually have the time (and money) for hobbies. I can't really stay motivated to learn something just for the sake of knowing, but I can keep with it if I care about the end goal. That's where hobbies help.
Also, after getting a job how do you learn new things. Since your job will be taking a huge chunk of your time. Education is a scam and I am a removed.
A question I'm still struggling with, but essentially the paths are self-directed learning or post-education training. Depending on your situation some employers will pay for that stuff, but uhhh good luck on that one.
I have no other interests except linux, scripting and web scraping and that's a big problem. I really have no idea what I should learn or make.
There are a few subfields that fall under that umbrella. Linux skills are a great fit for embedded development, which is a great field if you can break in, but is very challenging. For this you'll want to learn tools like Yocto, as well as rounding out your low level knowledge of hardware protocols and alternate embedded operating systems. Another available path would be doing back end work with databases and hosting. I'm not as familiar in this area, but you'll want to learn docker, kubernetes, or other containerization tools.
Separately, a possible field to go for is something called "Sales engineering." Skills for this are a bit harder to nail-down, but you should focus on tools that let you build applications quickly for demonstration purposes. Python and other interpreted languages are common. The idea for sales engineers are to be versatile and able to communicate effectively about products you are building.
Start an OnlyFans ? Become one of those nonsense coding influencers on YouTube who never shut out about AI?
Idk , I like web development
OnlyFans is only for women. I do not have the assets to start one.
How is social security in Nepal? What would happen if you didn't work at all?
You not get money for being unemployed in Nepal. Pension is only guranteed for government workers. People in private sector have (SSF) which stands for social security fund. A part of their salary + larger part from the employer is deposited there. Other than that we have "bridda bhatta" old age allowance, disability, single women allownace (just finding out this exists, wow!), and a couple more. The people in goverment sector have it a 100 times better. Better pay and lesser work. And let's not forget the pension from our tax money.