Learning Rust was the best decision in my life

947 points Ill-Adeptness9806 58 comments

34F who lives with epilepsy here.

Recently had multiple back to back seizures and had to leave my day job, my hopes of getting hired full-time are very slim.

Apart from my marketing job, my only other skill is this language, which I learned as a hobby back in Uni.

Given the limited options in the same career, I've decided to build some indie apps in rust, try and market them with what I know.

Life's pretty bad but things tend to ease out a bit when we commit to something meaningful for ourselves, given how much time it'd take to learn a new skill in scratch, I feel very grateful as I learned to code in Rust before.

I don't have high hopes, just that there might be some light in the tunnel, and I'm trying to look in the bright side. So thought I'd share it here.

Thanks for reading.