Ask HN: I just got fired for being a junior developer. What do I do now?

Re:Ask HN: I just got fired for being a junior developer. Wh... by mikecx on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:01PM (#9962491)

I would suggest walking through the list at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812245, finding things that interest you (more so than location, really like what the company does) and reach out to them. As one of the companies on that list that's hiring, having someone reach out that really wants the job helps quite a bit. It's a super long list with a lot of options.

In the meantime, since you don't have a ton of experience, i'd work on your Github. Right now it's a lot of small learning projects but nothing that shows how to build anything in particular. Personally, I was looking for some Ruby that wasn't boilerplate or some Javascript that wasn't other people's libraries.

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Re:Ask HN: I just got fired for being a junior developer. Wh... by bsima on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:25PM (#9963117)

Yeah I'll definitely work through the "Who is hiring" posts. I haven't had a lot of time recently to work on my Github, but I will focus all my time on that soon. The most mature OSS (+ hardware) project I have is Nebula Bio[1], which is what I usually share, but I think I'll put together a Rails or Django app or something like that for fun next week. Or maybe actually finish creating a library (I've started a few, never finished).

[1]: https://github.com/nebulabio/protochip/wiki

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