MsgingABottle

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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
Thank you so much for this thoughtful post—this is enormously helpful and encouraging.
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
This is a great idea! Definitely feels outside my current skill set—which has mostly come from working with Unity and C#—but seems like a good, attainable, challenging way to put some work in toward that end. Thanks for the advice!
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
It's been about four months. I've been going through friends and connections too, but they've mostly fizzled out.
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response! I've heard—and believe—that it'll get much easier to move forward after this next big step, but it's hard to feel like I'm just treading water. I'll definitely check out the Borou
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
I totally agree.
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
I've been in regular communication with a couple career development people via Slack, and saw one during an on-campus event recently. They're supportive, but their advice is mostly "Keep going!" I should ask what the tra
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
Thanks for the advice and the words of support—much appreciated! edit: To everyone else—thanks for the replies, I really appreciate everyone's feedback. I want to be replying faster, but HN isn't letting me add any more comments.
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
The bootcamp focused on JS; I've been dabbling with Python, C#, Elm, and Haskell. That's a great idea; I actually poked into it a bit a couple months ago, but had trouble finding projects with issues that were approachable. Is the
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
Two positions a day.
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by MsgingABottle 10y ago
I've done some mass-applying with things like AngelList, but generally I like to take the time to research a company, write a thoughtful cover letter, etc. It'd be hard to do that 100 times a day, especially if I'm going to d
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Ask HN: Underemployed and anxious. What would you do?
59 points by MsgingABottle 10y ago|63 comments