My Unpopular Career Advice for Today's College Graduates

Re:My Unpopular Career Advice for Today's College Graduates by andyonthewings on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:58PM (#17119838)

I dont think the idea of doing free work in order to learn and acquire knowledge and skills is that unpopular or controversial.

At least I myself did that when I was in university. I got into open source community and started contributing to the Haxe programming language. I ported some libraries from another languages and contributed some unit tests and CI configs (Travis, AppVeyor, SauceLabs) to the Haxe repo. Since I become a frequent contributor, the core developers are much more willing to teach and answer my questions on not just Haxe but coding knowledge in general.

After I graduated I was employed by the Haxe Foundation and that was my first fulltime paid job.

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Re:My Unpopular Career Advice for Today's College Graduates by tabtab on Monday May 21, 2018 @02:01PM (#17120355)

I had to turn to such when my specialty was replaced by The Web. I boned up on Web tech, but had no practical Web experience to put on my resume. The only way I found to get practical experience was to do projects for free, in exchange for references. It was survival for me.

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