So that's the market. Now the six months.
Watch what happens in the week after you tell people.
Before that week, you could scroll for the next two thousand hours and nobody is going to give a crap. Let's be honest, it bothers no one. Nobody ever said, why do you watch Netflix, why don't you study, why don't you work out, why don't you gain some skills, why don't you learn investing. No relative sat you down. No friend asked whether that was the best use of your year.
Then you say three words. I'm learning coding. And within a week there's an economist in your family.
Isn't it AI is taking over coding? I've heard lots of tech layoffs, isn't it? Aren't all the tech jobs gone? Economy is so bad. Did you hear they're laying off ten thousand people?
These are the same people who never once asked what you were doing with your evenings.
That asymmetry is the most useful thing on this page, and it has nothing to do with Java.
The mechanism isn't malice. If you think it's malice you'll handle it wrong.
When I gamble, when I scroll, when I play games, when I watch Netflix, when I eat chips all evening, nothing bothers you. As soon as I want to do something, it bothers you, and all of a sudden you're an economist. You're a subject matter expert.
Here's the thing. While you were scrolling you were confirming something comfortable. That this is simply what evenings are. That nobody really changes. When you start climbing you stop confirming it, and your effort turns into a comment on their evenings that you never made and never intended to make.
The discomfort is real. It's theirs. And it arrives dressed as concern for you.
The Java is not going to make you quit. The people around you is going to make you quit.
Which specific person in your life is going to say the discouraging sentence to you?
If the name arrived before you finished reading the question, this isn't a prediction, it's a memory. You've stood here before with something else you tried and let go of. The difference last time is that you didn't know the sentence was coming, so you took it as information and argued with it.