Re:Ask HN: Finding a job for beginner programmer?
by bdcravens on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @06:36PM
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Remember that most of the jobs are the 99%. (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen9...) Unseen, unsexy. Most jobs aren't using Angular, Ember, node, go, or anything resembling functional programming. Most jobs aren't in "funded" companies, but you eat what you kill: your job will support something that makes or saves money. The kind of job where the only time you hear "traction" is if they make cars.
I said all that not to bash the "sexy" jobs, but to say that if you want to know how to find a job, don't think that a keyword count on the HN homepage is how to determine what to learn :-) You must have skills someone is willing to pay you for. I'd say that means PHP, core HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery, .NET, some markets Ruby, and perhaps Python.
I said all that not to bash the "sexy" jobs, but to say that if you want to know how to find a job, don't think that a keyword count on the HN homepage is how to determine what to learn :-) You must have skills someone is willing to pay you for. I'd say that means PHP, core HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery, .NET, some markets Ruby, and perhaps Python.