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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

And an advice to others, go [back] to college. It's the only way to get a job these days. The days of "self-taught wiz-kid" are over.

Wut lol, definitely not. At least in tech/programming careers and it has been starting to spread to other industries (slowly, but spreading none the less). A solid project portfolio, well written resume and maybe a few applicable well chosen certifications can get you far.

I'm decently high up with the ability to hire and fire and I can tell you I def choose the self-taught person with a solid portfolio full of cool personal projects and self taught over someone just fresh out of college with the college-standard portfolio just about every time

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would love to know what kind of cool personal projects you've seen! I'm trying to get my first job in web dev and feel like i have a hard time coming up with stuff to do for my portfolio.