> Build a public body of work in one way, shape, or form. This can be pretty difficult. Most places you work for will not have your work as open source. And if

> Build a public body of work in one way, shape, or form. This can be pretty difficult. Most places you work for will not have your work as open source. And if its backend work then there is not a lot to show the public in terms of end results. The sort of thing I am good at are building relatively large scale projects, it's not the sort of thing that I can do in my spare time without spending months. On top of that, I have offered people examples of code that I have in bitbucket and they still insist that you do their pointless c"oding challenge". Evey company thinks that they are special.