It’s been some months since I completed an online bootcamp as a web developer (MERN stack)…outside here has been difficult, especially with no experience…no job opportunities and clients. If you have a startup or knows opportunities somewhere, I need your help because I currently feel stuck.
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Self employment is the way to go. Too many opportunities especially with AI.
Create a portfolio demonstrating your abilities too.
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You are not stuck—you’re just in the in-between phase
Share your GitHub or portfolio link
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AI has cut the tech stack jobs by 80%, my suggestion is for you to switch to Quality Assurance and beta testing.
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have you had luck in these two?
I haven’t applied for a job in 3 and a half years.. so no.
what do you do?
My uncle has been teaching me agribusiness since he doesn’t like me wasting time writing pointless letters in a dead economy.
Have to say, I agree with him.
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Feedback:
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Document each of your repos thoroughly. People who look through your github hardly read or run the code they focus more on documentation.
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Stop statpadding repos, might as well have all related work on one large project to clean up the noise because quality > quantity
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Work on larger scale projects. Projects like task trackers, todo lists and calculators make you lose credibility instantly to recruiters
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If you wanna work in a company or team learn best practices such as unit testing and integration testing and implement them in your projects because they are essential
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And last but not least, just keep learning and building, ipo siku. If you’re that much into MERN stack specialize on frontend and learn Next or Svelte as a next step to set you apart from the crowd. Also consider collaborating with friends on projects.
I wish I could share one of my repos as an example (it actually landed me an opportunity without even being asked to do an interview) lakini zile vituko nimepost hii kijiji nikijidoxx mimi kwisha
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So unasema calculator isiappear in repos?
What projects do you advise him to take?
Name them
Something larger scale and more real-world like a loans app or a food delivery app. Because most companies in the market won’t hire you to build them calculators
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I really like your constructive feedback bro.
Thanks bro
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@Sambamba niaje?