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 galfarragem on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:09PM (#24760982)

I have a few friends, really smart ones, that would do anything to have recruiters "annoying" them. And all of this just because they made an unfortunate choice somewhere in their past: they didn't choose STEM.

Everytime I ear people here bashing recruiters I feel the urge to shout: It's not about you it's STEM. Enjoy your prized ticket but be humble.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by Siira on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:40AM (#24788540)

Anyone not choosing STEM has done a major mistake. It wasn't by luck that I (and I assume I am representative) chose STEM.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by whatsmyusername on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:51PM (#24762093)

For every decent recruiter I've ever dealt with I got a thousand low effort spams from India or Pakistan from guys all named John trying to get me to take some crappy call center or tech support position 2 moves back.

It might actually be 10000 to 1. I HAVE worked with tech recruiters (I can think of a specific local company) that were good, but it's incredibly rare outside maybe a major metro.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by zymhan on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:20AM (#24762236)

I'm so sick of this trope, I have so very many recruiters with "american-sounding" names sending endless irrelevant or poorly explained job posts.

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