"Is this business advice or job advice, Patrick?" Yes. More seriously: the older I get the less useful I see that distinction being.
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I'd add "Work on stuff." but it needs the elaboration "I know that *sounds* vacuous but we all know there exist stuff-free job options."
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Work on stuff! Even if it doesn't matter, is invisible, non-portable, and owned by someone else. Sometimes it's a stepping stone.
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I think you can get paid on things which hit all four of these bullet points, but that that isn't default option.
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Second is much less hard than people think. "Thing I learned today about optimizing this type of task in SQL."
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I'd agree but probably not how you meant it.
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College & employer are suboptimal vehicles for skill acquisition if you care about controlling your career direction.
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@nzgb work on stuff you share that flourishes even when you moved on. -
I wrote node-geoip, which lives on via external contributors long after I stopped using node. Now I just push to npm.
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"What's your GitHub" -- most hired programmers don't have much there & interviewers rarely review in depth either.
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"What's your GitHub" is generically a request to shibboleth that you pass FizzBuzz & justify further conversation.
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