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I’ve watched too many people enter tech with silent expectations they never say out loud. You start a course in January and in your mind you’ve already calculated that by June you’ll be earning in dollars. You even start mentally drafting your “Finally resigned!” post.
Then month five comes. You’re still debugging basic errors. You’ve sent out applications and nobody has replied. Now you’re wondering if tech is oversaturated or if you’re just not smart enough.
Please breathe.
Tech is not magic. It’s skill building. And skill building takes time.
Nobody really prepares beginners for the awkward middle stage. That stage where you understand small small things but you still can’t confidently build something from scratch. You can follow a tutorial perfectly, but once the instructor stops talking, you freeze. That stage frustrates a lot of people.
And life is not happening in isolation.
You’re working a 9 to 5.
You’re running a small business.
You’re sharing a laptop with a sibling.
Your internet is unstable.
NEPA decides to humble you at the wrong time.
Meanwhile, someone online is tweeting, “I learned tech in four months.”
What they didn’t mention is that they were learning full time, had a mentor reviewing their code daily, maybe even had a background in something related.
Different starting points. Different realities.
For many beginners who are consistent but also living real life, six to twelve months to become solid enough for entry level roles is normal. Sometimes more. And that is not failure. That is growth.
Another thing we don’t talk about enough is this: watching tutorials feels productive, but it can become a comfort zone. You can spend months “learning” without ever building something messy on your own. The first time you try to build alone and it doesn’t work, that’s when real ...
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