And an advice to others, go [back] to college. It’s the only way to get a job these days. The days of “self-taught wiz-kid” are over.
Wut lol, definitely not. At least in tech/programming careers and it has been starting to spread to other industries (slowly, but spreading none the less). A solid project portfolio, well written resume and maybe a few applicable well chosen certifications can get you far.
I’m decently high up with the ability to hire and fire and I can tell you I def choose the self-taught person with a solid portfolio full of cool personal projects and self taught over someone just fresh out of college with the college-standard portfolio just about every time
Would love to know what kind of cool personal projects you’ve seen! I’m trying to get my first job in web dev and feel like i have a hard time coming up with stuff to do for my portfolio.
I’m talking about ‘light flashes’. I myself do not mind flashes, but this add-on can be used to block any event that could be user-unfriendly. There are ways to monetize it too! You can make a ‘Certified’ badge and have Youtubers buy an account and ‘Sanitize’ their Events. Otherwise, it could be a joint effort by everyone. People can vote whether this event is marked correctly. You get the gist! I would do this myself but I mostly do systems programming and language development. I honestly do not know where to begin, and I am not interested anyways! I think if you are a webdev looking for ideas, this is a solid one.
Yes, but what about both? Would that not carry you further? My portfolio has never landed me a job and I keep adding more and more stuff to it. Like atm I am working on a simple tree-walked interpreter for a Lua-like language with partial evaluation and hopefully meta-tracing. I still don’t think that would be enough, however, if I had a degree and even half of this portfolio, I would be set! Right?
I would like to know your assessment as someone with firing/hiring power. Keep in mind that I have never done ‘aggressive applying’. I think I have applied for a job less than 10 times. I used to get jobs from my friends and I earned a good amount of money from it. But then my friends stopped having jobs to give me lol.
I don’t even know what I’m doing, or why I’m doing things. Check out all the repositories that I have not listed in my README.md file. I just hope going to college would give me some sort of confidence? I’m not sure. I just feel less ‘sure’ about myself without a degree.
Besides there’s the social element. I know I said the college is ‘self-study’ but labs are not. And I still get to ‘network’ with guys and gals who attend the same class on some messaging app don’t I. I’ve just been so lonely during the past 3 years since my brother kicked it.
I know I should not have had prescribed it to everyone. I mean people have brains. If you have hit a slump in your life, try college. That’s all I can say.
Keep in mind I’m more of a “Jack of all trades” sysadmin/IT/devops role
Your portfolio seems pretty solid, but it’s all very… technical utilities and such. What I like to see is a passion/fun project. For example, do you like gaming? Build a game! But not just any game, a game on a topic and style that you like. That sort of thing. Passion projects have a way of bringing out your best skills whether you realize it or not.
Also some parts of your readme.md kinda seem…unsure. id cut out that entire aliases blurb and just stick with one professional alias. Or your actual name if you’re not worried about it
Also the “employed(?)” thing, it’s too ambiguous, just pick the closest fit for it. Is it just something he hits you up every once in a while for something and offers a one time payment? I’d put something like “regularly freelances for” or something like that.
Keep in mind that I have never done ‘aggressive applying’. I think I have applied for a job less than 10 times. I used to get jobs from my friends and I earned a good amount of money from it. But then my friends stopped having jobs to give me lol.
This is probably your biggest problem. I got my current role 3 years ago and even then I sent over 200 applications across <2 months, and had just 10 interviews.
It’s so much worse now after all the layoffs and AI bs. Might seem daunting to do all those applications, but you’re a developer, automate it!
Also, you’re in the EU, even if you pay for college it’s still basically free compared to us in the states.
Here college runs 20k/yr at best without scholarships and upwards of >50k, so you don’t “just” go-to college here unless your career actually needs it (ie. Doctor), you’re rich and can afford it, got lucky with some scholarships or join the military to get free schooling
Thanks a lot my good man. Your post gives me the courage to write this text adventure I’ve been wanting to write in Pascal. I found this old book about text adventures in Pascal, but I was thinking if it’d be too ‘unprofessional’ to have a game there. Now I know it’s better if I write the game, in Pascal! It’s such an old, quaint language.
Wut lol, definitely not. At least in tech/programming careers and it has been starting to spread to other industries (slowly, but spreading none the less). A solid project portfolio, well written resume and maybe a few applicable well chosen certifications can get you far.
I’m decently high up with the ability to hire and fire and I can tell you I def choose the self-taught person with a solid portfolio full of cool personal projects and self taught over someone just fresh out of college with the college-standard portfolio just about every time
Would love to know what kind of cool personal projects you’ve seen! I’m trying to get my first job in web dev and feel like i have a hard time coming up with stuff to do for my portfolio.
I have a nice idea for you webdev people. Write ‘Event Block’ for Youtube. Like Sponsor Block, but for stuff like flash bangs.
What do you mean by flashbangs?
I’m talking about ‘light flashes’. I myself do not mind flashes, but this add-on can be used to block any event that could be user-unfriendly. There are ways to monetize it too! You can make a ‘Certified’ badge and have Youtubers buy an account and ‘Sanitize’ their Events. Otherwise, it could be a joint effort by everyone. People can vote whether this event is marked correctly. You get the gist! I would do this myself but I mostly do systems programming and language development. I honestly do not know where to begin, and I am not interested anyways! I think if you are a webdev looking for ideas, this is a solid one.
Yes, but what about both? Would that not carry you further? My portfolio has never landed me a job and I keep adding more and more stuff to it. Like atm I am working on a simple tree-walked interpreter for a Lua-like language with partial evaluation and hopefully meta-tracing. I still don’t think that would be enough, however, if I had a degree and even half of this portfolio, I would be set! Right?
Here’s what I have so far btw: https://pastebin.com/wRATk4G4 it’s all in D.
I would like to know your assessment as someone with firing/hiring power. Keep in mind that I have never done ‘aggressive applying’. I think I have applied for a job less than 10 times. I used to get jobs from my friends and I earned a good amount of money from it. But then my friends stopped having jobs to give me lol.
I don’t even know what I’m doing, or why I’m doing things. Check out all the repositories that I have not listed in my README.md file. I just hope going to college would give me some sort of confidence? I’m not sure. I just feel less ‘sure’ about myself without a degree.
Besides there’s the social element. I know I said the college is ‘self-study’ but labs are not. And I still get to ‘network’ with guys and gals who attend the same class on some messaging app don’t I. I’ve just been so lonely during the past 3 years since my brother kicked it.
I know I should not have had prescribed it to everyone. I mean people have brains. If you have hit a slump in your life, try college. That’s all I can say.
Keep in mind I’m more of a “Jack of all trades” sysadmin/IT/devops role
Your portfolio seems pretty solid, but it’s all very… technical utilities and such. What I like to see is a passion/fun project. For example, do you like gaming? Build a game! But not just any game, a game on a topic and style that you like. That sort of thing. Passion projects have a way of bringing out your best skills whether you realize it or not.
Also some parts of your readme.md kinda seem…unsure. id cut out that entire aliases blurb and just stick with one professional alias. Or your actual name if you’re not worried about it
Also the “employed(?)” thing, it’s too ambiguous, just pick the closest fit for it. Is it just something he hits you up every once in a while for something and offers a one time payment? I’d put something like “regularly freelances for” or something like that.
This is probably your biggest problem. I got my current role 3 years ago and even then I sent over 200 applications across <2 months, and had just 10 interviews.
It’s so much worse now after all the layoffs and AI bs. Might seem daunting to do all those applications, but you’re a developer, automate it!
Also, you’re in the EU, even if you pay for college it’s still basically free compared to us in the states.
Here college runs 20k/yr at best without scholarships and upwards of >50k, so you don’t “just” go-to college here unless your career actually needs it (ie. Doctor), you’re rich and can afford it, got lucky with some scholarships or join the military to get free schooling
Thanks a lot my good man. Your post gives me the courage to write this text adventure I’ve been wanting to write in Pascal. I found this old book about text adventures in Pascal, but I was thinking if it’d be too ‘unprofessional’ to have a game there. Now I know it’s better if I write the game, in Pascal! It’s such an old, quaint language.
Thanks again!