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You're dangerously close to blaming the victim. --- "You've never done anything practical. Busy learning & flipping burgers? I don't pay people to do either
by loup-vaillant 13y ago
You're dangerously close to blaming the victim.
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"You've never done anything practical. Busy learning & flipping burgers? I don't pay people to do either."
"Why nobody hired you since you graduated?"
"Oh, but that was an internship. You never have really worked."
"Open Source? Where you paid for it? Oh, that's not professional experience, then."
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"The world is divided in two categories:" those who had luck, and those who must explain why not.
- outside1234 13y agoI have direct experience that #3 and #4 above is false. Frankly, if you don't have any practical experience, you aren't going to get hired. Expecting otherwise is victim mentality.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoI recall a testimony that reported #3 verbatim (heard on the radio, by the victim herself). Luckily, no one said that to my face. I made #4 up, on the assumption that the "real world" means money is involved. (That last one is often use to depreciate CS research: somehow, it's often not the "real world".) Now, just a little problem: If I'm not going to get hired, how am I supposed to get any practical experience? Looks like an egg & chicken situation to me. Don't tell me Open Source is the only escape, is it? I'm really glad I was hired back when I had next to no practical experience.