As a guess: history isn’t one of your strong points.
Hurrm… I found your little speech actually quite inspiring. I wonder what that says about my cynicism, haha.
Also, in the spirit of these Deep Thoughts:
who wants to live forever? anything gets boring after you get too much.
You are the one that uses negative terms like depression and regret.
I am not any of that myself, I go to work happily. I do feel that if I had gone into the business as a freelancer I might have been in a better place right now.
I’ve absolutely no regrets.
Didn’t take long to write that “article” either; I can bash stuff like that out in 15 minutes. Maybe I should have been a journalist.
Cas 
Humm: when I was in uni I think the numbers were something like >10 new grads per job opening. Like that Chinese dude said: Find something you love and you’ll never have to work.
The situation for graduates here in the UK is just hilarious. Unless you’re a graduate. We have historically had some kind of “shortage”, so “industry” tells us, of “IT staff”. It turns out that “IT staff” are people who can grovel under desks to plug in ethernet cables, or lift the 2 tonne HP laserjet off the desk and take it away to the place that laser printers go when they go to die, or who knows how to watch a crawling bar as Windows installs on a recently virus-infected desktop work machine. It transpires that actual software engineers and programmers are extremely plentiful and there are nowhere near as many jobs in programming as has been made out.
Don’t ever forget this. As a programmer you are an easily replaceable part in a large machine.
Cas
Unless you’re an experienced Cobol programmer.
I’ve been the super optimistic one. I’ve been gung ho about new tech like Java 8, Scala, Akka, etc. I’m even more excited about the non-programming stuff I’m learning about.
My mindset is more about pushing forward now, and doing what I want to do on this Earth, rather than feeling bad about past regrets and issues.
Not I. It’s been a good career so far and solving problems while programming brings me quite a bit of satisfaction.
Luckily it can be quite well compensated too. The only thing I would have done differently is something I would tell my younger self: “Congratulations on graduating! Work hard and enjoy the ride but also save a lot of dough to ensure you have options when you turn 40 because it won’t be as exciting then”.
There was an interesting article on the beeb recently about job satisfaction: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26671221
I was slightly surprised that software development was fairly middling - personally, in my experience software/IT ‘stuff’ is considerably more interesting than almost all of my friends jobs, is considerably better paid, and (touch wood) I’ve never had any problems finding work.
As a guess: read the fine print:
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EDIT: It should have probably been:
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