> I put all my eggs in the “being a programmer” basket and it’s clearly not for me.
are you judging based on your performance on these coding tests or on your enjoyment of the work of programming. If you genuinely enjoy coding/are interested by it then maybe it is for you.
I enjoy it, but not given the failure rate I'm experiencing. If I had 50% or less failure ratio I would be ok. But as is essentially every problem is a 2-5 hour struggle where I meander to an answer feeling usually I temporarily learned why X didn't work in that given situation and not something widely applicable.
> I put all my eggs in the “being a programmer” basket and it’s clearly not for me.
are you judging based on your performance on these coding tests or on your enjoyment of the work of programming. If you genuinely enjoy coding/are interested by it then maybe it is for you.