I’ll reply with my second job as I really consider it my first. It came 9 months after I graduated from school. Didn’t have people lined up to hire me! There w

I’ll reply with my second job as I really consider it my first. It came 9 months after I graduated from school. Didn’t have people lined up to hire me! There was a time (2005 when Monster.com helped with finding roles and making connections. A recruiter from an insurance catastrophe modeling vendor contacted me about a role as a data cruncher for their home replacement cost (for insurance) estimation product. My practical data experience was all self-taught. Taught myself PHP/HTML/SQL in high school to make websites for my touring bands and ended up landing a job working heavily with SQL that changed my career trajectory in the best way possible. Fun fact: it was my first and only job ever sourced through a pure random contact / job board. Every role since has been connections, referrals, etc