First real job was granted not on portfolio (no GitHub in 2006) but based on pure sympathy and luck. It was a job board project. I had done a few website befor

First real job was granted not on portfolio (no GitHub in 2006) but based on pure sympathy and luck. It was a job board project. I had done a few website before, but nothing significant. I think it does not matter what's in your portfolio as long as you've released a few things and did everything to make to them look good. Not necessarily design but presentation, documentation, testing and function.