Sometimes there's also a part before job hunting - preparing your portfolio. Nowadays you get a lot of "show us what you made on GitHub" - which sort of makes s

Sometimes there's also a part before job hunting - preparing your portfolio. Nowadays you get a lot of "show us what you made on GitHub" - which sort of makes sense from employers standpoint because you get to see code quality and ability of someone to think independently. I'm changing the tech stack completely - different language, different type of development (at least from the day job perspective, I had some 2,000h of experience with it on a side project I can't publish yet in the recent 2 years) and I will definitely need to prepare something, otherwise I have almost no relevant experience to show. I suppose it's going to take at least 500h and that's being optimistic. Time is slightly on my side though, as the day job is freelancing, I think I can cap it at 30h/week average and have remaining 30h/week for the portfolio project - which hopefully means I will be ready 5 months from now, but I would not be surprised if it blows up further.