u/No_Duty_1089 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Saw your replies on other posts and actually wanted to message you privately. So glad you replied to my post, I also assumed that my school would adequately prepare me for the job market but the 2 most relevant classes to SWE and web dev were only offered once a year and would fi
u/michaelnovati replied ·
It's indeed tough and there isn't just one answer, so just some ideas:
1. Make your own startup! Make an LLC, launch something, get real users, charge for it, etc... This works well if you are ambitious.
2. Do open source work, on legit huge projects and make an impression on people - this works if you can independently figure stuff out - don't expect too much help.
3. Work on a project that you truly poor yourself into for like a month and then try doing a push to network and send it around and get some engineers looking at it.