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I get your frustration. It's challenging to take on someone as green as yourself, even if you're reasonable, it's hard to judge.
I'm trying to swap disciplines at the moment, and that's a challenge. As much as I hate the addage of "writing open source", I'm making an open source project that is related to what I'm trying to switch to. Food for thought. Small personal project, do something interesting or useful to you. Or there are usually some variant of "help wanted" and "good first issue" tags in open source projects.
Yes, that means working in your personal time. Hopefully that's OK, hopefully you enjoy what you're trying to get into. -
@atheist I really do appreciate the advice. Thank you! Personal time at the moment is kind of rough when my fiancé and I work completely opposite schedules. My free time is usually only on my days off. Nights and mornings are rough when working 10:30-9:30 every day. I mean late nights will be an option. But no personal time with family is hard.
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Would remote work be a possibility instead? That way you can search a wider area and find someone who wants your skills (e.g. my current company is struggling to hire SQL skills at the moment, though it is uk based lol).
LinkedIn is always a mixed bag - I've been lucky with it this time, getting hired more for my non technical skills with the expectation I'll pick up the language I don't know, but that's a small company and an edge case. Prior to this it's always been a warren of recruiters
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Just applied to a new job with this as my cover letter.
Wish me luck!
Serious question.
I’m trying to start my career as an entry level developer. I have had an internship for a short period of time before the company fell apart and had to go back to my retail job to pay the bills. My question is, where are you guys applying to entry level jobs at? Like I have tried LinkedIn. But I looked for entry level and it came up with a 7+ year experience description in my area. Or 2-3 years experience. I’m just trying to find an entry level job man. Like how hard is it to find that? I’m a boot camp grad as well. But even with recruiters it’s so hard to find a job in my area that would take someone on that is so green in tech.
400+ applications and like 50 interviews. Decided to put my specialization in sql and c# and focus more on those because that’s what’s more popular in my area (tulsa, ok). I’m not 100% the best programmer or developer. But man I have the drive to learn and I guess that’s not good enough without experience. I’m at a mental breaking point right now.
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