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It would help to know where you live and what type of work you would like to get. But I can give you some general advice in the mean time. Really, you are in a
by trcollinson 10y ago
It would help to know where you live and what type of work you would like to get. But I can give you some general advice in the mean time. Really, you are in a good spot to do well!
If I were you I would start to consult on the side while in school. In fact, this is exactly what I did do in high school and college. Make a small but well designed site which shows your projects in a portfolio style. Offer your services to local businesses while trying to focus on solutions you can offer them to help them with their specific problems. For example, as a freshman in high school I helped a specialty billing company to automate some of their reporting which used to be a manual process. I figured out they needed this by calling them up, introducing myself as a high school student who was trying to find companies who needed my services as a software developer, and asking what problems they had. It turns out, it's really that easy sometimes.
If you'd like to get a more salary based job on a team at a company, you might be in a good spot for this too. Create a resume. Focus on what you have worked on and what accomplishments you have achieved. Send this out to prospective employers. It would be good to still create the small but well designed portfolio site to show off your open source projects and mention this in your resume. Send this resume out to 5 companies a day, every day, and you will quickly find you start to get quite a lot of response.
We all started somewhere. A lot of us started out with a lot less experience than you have described here. You'll do well!
- foundry27 10y agoThank you so much for taking the time to reply. If you (and anyone else for that matter) are curious, I live in Ottawa, Canada and am looking to get involved with backend or low-level work (though I’m trying to learn everything and anything that I can).