I would recommend dabbling in different fields and writing open source stuff. If you like the work, you’ll probably build something cool that may get you hired.

I would recommend dabbling in different fields and writing open source stuff. If you like the work, you’ll probably build something cool that may get you hired. If you don’t like it, drip the project and try something else. I got really into options trading and built a paper trading site that eventually got acquired (for actual money!), and that’s been the talking point of every interview since I sold it. If you decide you like robotics and you build a library that does fast matrix multiplication leveraging webgl or something, I think a lot of people would be very interested in at least having a conversation with you at that point. People who can “get things done” are always valuable.