germangraduate

I hope it's OK to jump on the bandwagon here.

I'm a German CS graduate[1] in desperate need for some professional feedback/assessment and maybe career advice.

I have three years of experience in not very code-focused tech companies that work with legacy tech stacks where I feel no employee learned anything new during the last 5-10 years, so at work I never had anyone to learn anything from or even consider a "mentor" in any way, so I just tried to learn as much as possible by myself in my free time.

Unfortunately I have similar impressions of many of my professors (being stuck somewhere many many years ago) and fellow students (not at all being interested in recent tech).

I don't have active accounts on either GH, SO or even HN, Reddit or Twitter, I don't have a blog and I don't have any real projects/products to showcase.

I'd love to be able to just chat with someone experienced and get some feedback on where I do and don't feel skilled - even if it's really only for a couple of minutes.

I set up a mail address which is [my HN username]@outlook.com

Thank you very much in advance.

[1] I'm writing the thesis for my B.Sc. right now and will graduate in a couple of months. In German you call someone writing their thesis "graduate", I don't know if you also do in English.