Employers of reddit, what do you expect a 17-19 year olds resume to consist of?

I started doing freelance programming after I realized that working for someone else is a no-win situation. You can't be promoted from the line cook to CEO, best you could hope for after 20 years is a regional management position. As they say, you can either work building someone else's dreams, or your own. CEOs are people who founded their own companies, not people who worked their way up in someone else's.

Businesses are, and must be, fundamentally structured so that how well the business is doing is a function of how well the employees are doing. This sounds good, but in practice it means that a business is always making more off your labor than you are being paid. It's a fact of life.

So I started working for myself. It was hard at first, dealing with customers and all, but even the worst didn't compare to the kind of people that come into Taco Bell at 2am. It took a few years to build up a decent portfolio (I thought it would only take months) but eventually I was able to get pretty cushy gigs on reputation alone.

Finally, I hired on a couple of my friends who had started freelancing too, just web design stuff, while I expanded our offerings into penetration testing and app development. The business side got to be to much for me to handle (it's not really my cup of tea) so I brought on a relative to be 'CEO'. I moved into the role of CTO.

As of today, we've got 21 employees, all being paid salaries above the average for their respective fields.

So while I'm sure misspelling grateful in a Reddit post at 3am is single-handedly holding me back from whatever jobs have that as a requirement (presumably something for English majors... starbucks?) I'm not that worried about being "stuck where I am". Thank you for the concern though.

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