Title: I&#x27;m an 18 year old programmer, broke, inexperienced, and sleep deprived. I&#x27;ve came to the conclusion that I need to be useful to a company to expect any sort of investment of time&#x2F;energy from them, but the time I have to invest in myself is quickly fading away. Options are of low quantity as in any sob story on the internet, and I&#x27;m looking for a way out of this purgatory.<p>I have a few questions for you guys, and if you will answer them I will be thankful and possibly even inspired to do something great.<p>Are there companies out there that are okay investing time&#x2F;engergy&#x2F;money into young and inexperienced software developers? Sure, I&#x27;ve read a few articles on the internet about this, but I would love to have a better outlook in the eyes of HN.<p>Would I have a chance? I haven&#x27;t listed all that I&#x27;ve done on my GitHub, Linkedin, and such, keep in mind.<p>If you were in my shoes and had a month to come up with some income, how would you go about doing it? Believe me, I&#x27;ve spent hours on Fiverr, Freelancer, Gun.io, BountySource, and more, but nothing has came from that except a few dollars here and there. Certainly not enough for a kid who is living on his own. I have, of course, applied to several restaurants within manageable bus distance. No luck. I even attempted to join all of the branches of the military; There were no GED spots open at the time (and don&#x27;t assume I can&#x27;t take commitment (because of dropping out of highschool), I have several people who would say otherwise (all programmers)). I realized that if my employment depended on giving in to a flawed education system, I&#x27;d rather switch professions. Nothing is worth feeding that monster.<p>If you guys have any advice that could help me on my search for software development income, feel free to reply. I also wouldn&#x27;t mind discussing any controversy I&#x27;ve caused here. Tell me what you are thinking!<p>Check out these links, and happy late xmas!
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