I fucking hate my job. I wish I was a software engineer

I'm a mechanical engineer. I fucking hate it. Because the things you make are visible, people are nit picky about the most stupid shit. The work is hard, your bosses are tools, and your coworkers are idiots.

Should I bother trying to switch over without a degree? I did do a little bit of firmware programming 3 years ago when the EE I was working with was retarded. pls help

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while it is impressive that you did this, I feel you were only able to do so on your own because of the arbitrary hardware limitations you set

>>34
In his defense, Dennis Ritchie was also working with pretty limited hardware. People forget that C and Unix were originally targeted to a system with a single processor, uniform memory space with less than 2 MB of RAM, minimal memory protection, and no MMU (yes, really - paging was added later, and the BSD people would have to to remove it again 10 years later because their target hardware also didn't have a working one). By that standard, a garden variety i386 box from the mid to late eighties is almost luxurious.

I remember this every time some so called embedded programmer tells me they don't have hardware powerful enough to run a real OS on it.