Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job

Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by Mandatum on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:59PM (#24760910)

You really think your experience works at scale? You're the product of hard work, smart decisions, awesome parents and something often forgotten - luck.

If you think for a minute your experiences can be translated and reproduced by the masses, you're kidding yourself.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by PhilosAccnting on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:30PM (#24768502)

He/she/it's right. I tried: https://adequate.life

It doesn't work. Too many variables in life to capture all of them.

I'm imagining 20 years from now someone making IntervieweeBot, who will pass all the tests and STILL not get the job because the interviewer didn't like that indignant look in the robot's eye. Or MLHire, a machine-learning algorithm that reliably fails to predict what the employee will want to be doing at the end of their contract. It will make millions in a Series A, become hugely popular, then promptly forgotten after [Elon Musk-like in 20 years] fails to deliver.

EDIT: 80% chance of male pronoun considering the industry, but wasn't sure.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by gumami on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:42AM (#24870679)

For future reference, Use they to cover all of the bases. "It" is degrading for folx who don't fit society's binary.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by swader999 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:11AM (#24762470)

Luck is one of the factors very few give enough credit to imo.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by d10r on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:09PM (#24770899)

you're omitting something very important in your list of related aspects: health

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