I totally forgot to warn people to not quit their job before joining my course, but I also think I *really* need to make this some kind of digital signature requirement. You agree to not quit your job and submit a photo with the date and your name on a piece of paper for proof.

I'm mostly joking, but the last time I ran a little experimental class I had so many people quit their perfectly good jobs to study and then flame out because they...couldn't buy food. I was horrified and I never told them to do that. Hell no, keep your job people!

I gathered that the only reason "quit your job to become a programmer" was even a fantasy is because programmers are oddly not very honest about how miserable programming is most of the time. It's a labor of love, and has big rewards for the pain, but it is painful.

So I think another reason I'd want people to keep working is so they have somewhere to go find *some* success and a break from the brutality of coding. Go bang your head on a bug then go cook bagels or something for 8 hours and you'll feel better. Trust me.

FYI this is from a section of the course "Common Misconceptions About Programming", so the title is a misconception, not something you should do.