
bigantennaemay1
Aspie social drifter without purpose or home
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I was taking a pre-employment software skills test online, and they provide a problem, a code window, and a results window, as well as a handy little window for doing searches on google. It's all monitored on that particular web page, so they'll be able to see everything I did, from mouse movements, to key presses. You get it.
I've been at it for several hours. I'm tired. It's 2:30 in the morning, and I just submitted my test. A pop-up at the start of the test warned me that there was code on the page to detect copy/pasting, to prevent cheating. The last test I took was developing an Angular form application. I had the main stuff done, and was trying to get validation working on a number input field, and without thinking, I went on the little google widget, looked for some CSS to hide the up/down arrows in the text/number field box, and then copied and pasted the solution into what I was working on. I got a pop-up telling me that copy-pasting was cheating. I closed it, and it was letting me continue with the test, but uh, yeah.
Granted, I don't think that's the only issue I had with this: I spent about three hours, I think, doing three simple tests. Spent way more time than I should have on writing a SQL query. Also, spent way too much time on Google, looking up way too many different syntax things and other aids, and how to use regex. Boy, I really need to brush up on my skills, I never realized I was this bad. To my credit, I did finish and pass every test, so far as I know, I just took forever doing it. And cheated, once. Why am I such a dumbass?
I think I'm going to be flipping burgers the rest of my life. Hopefully, it's a short one. I feel so useless and stupid, and embarrassed that I actually copy-pasted some CSS. But this is how I spent my entire "career": each of the software jobs I've had, I've spent half my time on Google, and the other half copying what's already been done. Be honest with me: should I just ditch trying to establish a software career for myself, if this is how I operate in it?
I've been at it for several hours. I'm tired. It's 2:30 in the morning, and I just submitted my test. A pop-up at the start of the test warned me that there was code on the page to detect copy/pasting, to prevent cheating. The last test I took was developing an Angular form application. I had the main stuff done, and was trying to get validation working on a number input field, and without thinking, I went on the little google widget, looked for some CSS to hide the up/down arrows in the text/number field box, and then copied and pasted the solution into what I was working on. I got a pop-up telling me that copy-pasting was cheating. I closed it, and it was letting me continue with the test, but uh, yeah.
Granted, I don't think that's the only issue I had with this: I spent about three hours, I think, doing three simple tests. Spent way more time than I should have on writing a SQL query. Also, spent way too much time on Google, looking up way too many different syntax things and other aids, and how to use regex. Boy, I really need to brush up on my skills, I never realized I was this bad. To my credit, I did finish and pass every test, so far as I know, I just took forever doing it. And cheated, once. Why am I such a dumbass?
I think I'm going to be flipping burgers the rest of my life. Hopefully, it's a short one. I feel so useless and stupid, and embarrassed that I actually copy-pasted some CSS. But this is how I spent my entire "career": each of the software jobs I've had, I've spent half my time on Google, and the other half copying what's already been done. Be honest with me: should I just ditch trying to establish a software career for myself, if this is how I operate in it?