Tonight I was thinking about one idea I had sometime ago. What would happen if I leave the computers work professionally?
I love the computers. I spend all day in front of my iMac with Debian GNU/Linux. I cannot say I have an active social life,
but I'm not bored after a full "computer" day. Sometimes, I miss somethings other "normal" people do like meet every day
in the street or all weekends going out to dinner and dance. Of course, I have friends and I go out to dinner, theater or
cinema but only one or two times every month.
After all this stupid thoughts, here you have my crazy rhetoric questions...
What would happen if I just look for a job out of computer programming or system administration?
What would happen if I ask for a job in a BurgerKing or a McDonalds?
We are in a bad situation here in Spain with technical jobs. If you don't live in Madrid or Barcelona you can get
easily more money working as a waiter or things like that than as a computer programmer. I'm used to see jobs that ask you
more than 3 or 5 years of experience as programmer, with all programming languages you could imagine and when you look at
the salary you can see: between 6000€ and 12000€ yearly (of course they always give you 6000€ when you start the job and
"in the future" they will review your salary)
Sometimes you are a lucky man and you see a job with a salary of 12000€ or 15000€ but then your life is your job, because
you start working more than eight hours every day, just because you have an "high" salary.
The best thing about all this is that if you accept those "wonderful" jobs you will get a job for six months, a year or
perhaps, if you are a lucky man two years, but then they kick you out and get someone new so they cat pay less money for
a new worker.
After all this I only see three solutions:
- Move to Madrid or Barcelona trying to improve the situation (it's better there but it's not ideal, I did it already three years ago, but I don't like Madrid as a city to live).
- Look for a job out of Spain (I had already an option some months ago, but due some personal problems I lost my opportunity).
- Create your own company.
The last option is the one I'm working on since long ago but it's not an easy task.
I think that all I can do is try all options until I get the "joker" option, :-) to win as much money as possible so I have
my life solved and I could do anything I want with my life, for example create software, create Free Software.
It's time to sleep, I think I said already enough stupidities and tomorrow I should restart my university studies.
Good Night
