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Career Advice

Getting a Job

  • Checkout what's out there
    • What are employers looking for?
    • Checkout linkedin and see if you can get intros
    • See if they host open houses or events
  • Meetup
    • Network
    • Learn something know
    • Meet cool people!
  • Github
    • Build an app that's interesting to you (not a todo app... which i am guilty of)
    • Contribute to open source (but meaningfuly) image image
    • Read open source code! There are hundreds of ways of doing things. You might learn a new pattern/idea/library/language feature.

Once you have a job

  • ...keep checking what's out there
    • See what the going rate for what you're doing is
    • What skills are employers looking for. Are you learning those where you're at?
    • Interview as often as you want... but shoot for at least once or twice a year
  • Compensation isn't just money
    • Learning
    • Career growth (are you moving up and do you want to here?)
    • Stocks and Benefits
    • Team and Co-workers
    • Culture
    • Work/Life balance
    • It's fine to take a lower paying/title if you're getting compensated in other ways
  • Keeping up to date
    • Hacker News, Reddit, etc image
    • Mobbing with other teams or pairing with other people
    • Can't try out something at work? Do a side project
  • Mentorship
    • Usually unofficial
    • Pick someone that is where you want to be (knowledge, career, life wise) and talk to them
    • People like talking about themselves... You just have to ask them
    • You can have more than one!
  • Fail... A lot
    • At interviewing
    • At work
    • In general
    • put yourself in a position where it's no big deal
    • ... and just learn something from it.
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you are the cutest.

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