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I know this is the newbie thread and this doesn’t apply directly to the target audience, but putting too much attention on side projects can lead to selecting for privilege
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ultrafilter posted:OK. How does that help you filter resumes from a stack of 200 when you only have time to interview 20-40? Random selection
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While I have a phone number on my resume, I have not had a prospective employer use it in the last 5 years
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Awesome news, my favorite posts are from people that are struggling to choose between two good offers.
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Imho there are way too many tech bros that only know how to do tech things and a huge shortage of people that can bring cross-discipline knowledge to the table
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Erwin posted:If you do that, then congrats - you know way more about how CI/CD actually works than a large portion of professional developers at many organizations. You can demo it in an interview - not every employer will feel that that "counts" as experience, but some good one will somewhere and boom, you have a developer job. don't even have to demo it, just being able to describe the process and talk about the concepts used in building that is enough to put you at the top of the stack
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Sep 26, 2023 19:23
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StumblyWumbly posted:In a better world, knowing pretty much any Python would mean you could get a job updating excel based admin work and just automating everything, even if it does mean you're that 'you should do it in Python' guy I did this at my last job and constantly fought with our CIO that wanted to get everyone to use Alteryx
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Oct 21, 2023 01:55
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While there is some overlap IT and programming are different careers and you should pick one to focus on. If you want to go programming drop the A+ and add freecodecamp or odin project. If you want to do IT, look at the AWS cloud practitioner certification, CCNA, and/or Security+
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if you're going down the it route pop in to the it thread to say hi https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3653857
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I love hearing goon success stories, sucks that your first post got that kind of reaction but you sure showed those nerds.
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