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Agreed, I've made an assumption and I explicitly added adjectives to note so, like "likely", "IMHO", etc. It's not a crazy assumption though, OP seems pretty lo

Agreed, I've made an assumption and I explicitly added adjectives to note so, like "likely", "IMHO", etc. It's not a crazy assumption though, OP seems pretty lost career-wise, no previous dev experience, unable to land a job in a world hungry for devs, and I'd argue they don't seem to have enough people-skills to figure these questions without resorting to the internet, all of which suggest to be either a student or pretty early in their career. Could be mistaken of course, just saying assuming it's someone early in their career to base my answer on something tangible doesn't seem crazy.

robocat 4y ago
It turns out your assumptions were somewhat hasty ;) Neontomo wrote in comments (perhaps after you commented): “I'm 29 and started working at 18! I've worked outside the service industry too (recently at Apple) but yes that's my main experience.”, and “I did some work for a hotel and sped up their marketing and IT stuff quite a bit with automation”. And georgyo wrote “There is a lot of comments, but no one took a moment to look at your profile and visit your website.” —— I always forget to do that! Even though I sometimes backtrawl all comments by a particular hn user (which might have been useful in this situation). > without resorting to the internet Asking for “expert” (?) advice on HN seems like a reasonably skilful approach, if used with other information sources (hard to know given we don’t know their context). It looked to me that they got heaps of really valuable feedback, validating their approach? To me your second comment seems to repeat the mistake of the first. I hope I don’t come across to you as foolishly critical - I think we are all trying to help!
- neontomo 4y ago
  Thank you for making this comment. This thread was immensely useful to me, as it helped me get 2 interviews at really cool places where I hope I can be of use and learn something. Currently focusing on learning a very specific stack too, because of the comments here. Thanks to everyone who answered.

robocat 4y ago

It turns out your assumptions were somewhat hasty ;) Neontomo wrote in comments (perhaps after you commented): “I'm 29 and started working at 18! I've worked outside the service industry too (recently at Apple) but yes that's my main experience.”, and “I did some work for a hotel and sped up their marketing and IT stuff quite a bit with automation”. And georgyo wrote “There is a lot of comments, but no one took a moment to look at your profile and visit your website.” —— I always forget to do that! Even though I sometimes backtrawl all comments by a particular hn user (which might have been useful in this situation). > without resorting to the internet Asking for “expert” (?) advice on HN seems like a reasonably skilful approach, if used with other information sources (hard to know given we don’t know their context). It looked to me that they got heaps of really valuable feedback, validating their approach? To me your second comment seems to repeat the mistake of the first. I hope I don’t come across to you as foolishly critical - I think we are all trying to help!

neontomo 4y ago
Thank you for making this comment. This thread was immensely useful to me, as it helped me get 2 interviews at really cool places where I hope I can be of use and learn something. Currently focusing on learning a very specific stack too, because of the comments here. Thanks to everyone who answered.