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Honestly, seems like you're selling yourself short. If I were you, I'd just apply to jobs regularly. Make some kind of cool demo ruby on rails (or whatever) sit
by btmorex 16y ago
Honestly, seems like you're selling yourself short. If I were you, I'd just apply to jobs regularly. Make some kind of cool demo ruby on rails (or whatever) site and then play up the fact that you learn fast in your resume.
Of course, I've never been in a hiring position and 99 times/100 I'd choose the person who learns quickly over the person who already knows.
- bengo 16y agoI'll likely end up doing this. At least, that's the plan. Right now I'm just waiting until my lease is up at the end of July to go anywhere. This is the first 'feeler' I've put out just to see if anyone is awesome and helpful enough to take a chance on me. If nothing works out, I'll just be submitting resumes. I'm nervous that I won't look that great on paper, at least compared to recent Stanford grads and whatnot that are clearly more qualified. On paper, all I've got on them is that I'll work for cheap. I'm on of those people you kind of just have to meet, or at least I'd like to think so. If I can sit down across from someone, I'm confident I can make them excited to work with me.
- btmorex 16y agoI had basically the same SATs except I dropped out of high school. I still got a job at 17 for 30k/year which adjusted for inflation + san francisco wages is like 60k+/year. At this point you can't compete with Stanford grads. The great thing is that there aren't that many Stanford grads (or mit, cmu, etc.) You don't even have to compete with them to get a decent job. Worst case, work QA for a year in a position where you can code as part of your job, but you don't need to code to be hired.