My mom forwarded me an ad from our neighborhood listserve while I was in college. A couple middle aged guys wanted to build an app, and were looking for someone

My mom forwarded me an ad from our neighborhood listserve while I was in college. A couple middle aged guys wanted to build an app, and were looking for someone young to mentor. The app didn’t end up going anywhere, but I learned a ton, and found out from my first job that offices are pointless. For my first “real” job, I got it indirectly thanks to winning a hackathon. A teammate got a job from that and then he hooked me up when I graduated. I’d definitely recommend hackathons for networking. I think they are dumb as an actual exercise, but you can meet a lot of interesting people and show off to them.