Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?

Re:Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking f... by alanpca on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:10PM (#4079710)

I was looking for similar advice when I was your age, unfortunately HN wasn't around at that point and information was more scarce. Kudos for using these tools to your advantage.

The most important thing you can do is build experience. I would keep working on open source projects, and try to engage yourself into popular ones to build a career direction that is impressive (the Django work is a great start here).

As far as a job, you're 16 and I'm going to guess your costs are very low. This is the perfect time to work on building a portfolio of your own work, as well as doing the aforementioned open source work. If you can get a fair job with low hours, look into the opportunity. At age 16, I fear a lot of people are going to try to take advantage of your youth to pay well-below-market prices. Do you have a need for money, experience is more valuable at this time?

Other random advice: do well in school, and invest a percentage of any money that you do make.

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Re:Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking f... by aviraldg on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:16PM (#4079745)

Thanks for the advice. You're right about the costs bit, but I have a few projects of my own that require the money (which is more than I can afford on my pocket-money.) So, I'd love to do a proper web development project for both the experience and well, y'know :)

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