HN commenter: "Sometimes you have to pay your dues and do at-cost or volunteer work." <-- Strong. Disagree. Neither required nor sufficient.
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Engineers want to think "Man if I just throw lots of value up onto Github then I will be given the best jobs and gigs." This is *NOT TRUE.*
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You get the best jobs and gigs by getting good at selling yourselves to the decisionmakers for the best jobs and gigs. Portfolio small piece
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There exist OSS devs of critically ecosystemicly important work who are starving artists because they haven't figured out sales/marketing.
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Conversely many people whose careers are enviable on any metric have no publicly accessible code, because companies pay them for their work.
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@jwestonharvey Starfighter certainly hopes so, you Higgs Bosons of awesomeness.
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