Quote: (04-12-2013 01:57 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:
Software is really hard, you are competing with really smart geeks who are younger who learned programming at 14, 15, it's like trying to learn Sanskrit if you are over 21.
Can't learn programming after the age of 21? Come on...If you can't learn it at 21 then you wouldn't have learned it at 14 either.
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You can never compete with an Indian who will work for nothing unless you are in sales, network security or something else that requires your physical presence in the USA.
There are plenty of developers working in first world countries for a good living. I'm too lazy to pull of the bureau of labor stats right now, but you don't have to be living in India working for slave wages to become a programmer. Let's also not forget that the average IQ in India is 81. You probably need a minimum IQ of 120 to be a programmer. There's only going to be so many Indians that can become programmers, probably no more than a few percent of the population that would be able to do it. So there's ultimately a limit to how much talent they can tap.