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My family still asks when I'm getting a real job. Two years in.

Anonymous21 Jul 2026

Left a stable government-adjacent job to learn to code full time. Everyone was polite about it for about six months, then the questions started.

I'm employed now. Company, salary, more than I made before.

At a wedding last week my uncle asked when I'd be getting something permanent. I said the job is permanent. He said yes, but you know what I mean. I let it go and went to find the food.

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Anonymous23 Jul 2026
My parents finally came around when I explained my pay in terms of their own field's years-of-experience equivalent. Often it isn't doubt, it's that 'software engineer' is just abstract to them. Two years in, you've long since proven it, the lag is on their side.
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Anonymous21 Jul 2026
Two years in, employed, and it's still "when are you going to settle into something proper". I gave up on explaining and let the payslips do it slowly instead. My mother came around the month I flew her somewhere.
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Anonymous21 Jul 2026
The uncle at the wedding is apparently a universal character. Mine asked whether my company was "registered".
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