The most I read and hear is "you're a hacker". And I get labeled as the computer nerd alot in school.
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After doing it for 15 years, I must be good at it and everything should be easy.
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As a non-dev (tinker for fun) observer- it sounds like your friends and family think you're working in IT, but their assumptions thereafter are fair. Is that accurate? That the misconception is software dev does not equal IT?
100%
I program -- yet I've been asked to fix a camera and Apple Maps.
that programmers make $300-500k/year
Just 2 days ago some friends thought that I could get any job from the huge pool of available jobs out there...