I don't really see much of a question. What would people do if they were 20? I'm 20, Australian and finishing a Bachelor of IT degree. I've worked part time at

I don't really see much of a question. What would people do if they were 20? I'm 20, Australian and finishing a Bachelor of IT degree. I've worked part time at a small marketing agency (developing websites, managing servers) in Brisbane. Getting the job was easy, they needed someone that had an idea of how MVC worked and how to program PHP. There's so many low barrier programming jobs around, I don't understand why you haven't been getting much attention. I contribute to and start open-source projects as much as I have time to. I have a tiny portfolio: http://github.com/pufuwozu http://github.com/pufuwozu A month or two ago, I applied for a Graduate Developer position at Atlassian and got asked for an interview. I think my open-source experience had a bit of influence, there (many Atlassian employees are open-source developers). I studied up on algorithms, data structures and Java. I was able to ace the interview and I'll be working at that really nice company next year. My naive advice, get some work experience at any small business, contribute to open-source without being embarrassed and study hard for interviews. Then again, do the opposite of what I do if you think that's best. I'm just working on instinct and it's possible I'm not going in the right direction.