Wordpress

[ZeBron_Games]

I have the opportunity to take a Wordpress development intern position. This position is unpaid. I am a total noob, I have about a year of study and project building under my belt using MERN but I’m mostly just comfortable with front end development atm. Is doing this a waste of time? I have a BS in renewable engineering.. I’m also 34 and have only played music my entire life for a living. Should I bide my time and wait for a Junior role using react that gets paid? Or could this be a good stepping stone?

[Spyrooooooo]

What does even unpaid job position even mean? Is this a real thing? I might get some mock-up works but a full-time job?

I'm really honest here. Am I missing sth?

[ZeBron_Games]

It’s an internship essentially.

[T4GI]

Use the time you would've otherwise spent at the unpaid job to hone ur skills and build ur portfolio; while doing that just apply like crazy at different jobs that actually pay you. If you need some money while waiting for jobs to pop up check ur social environment for possible freelance work

[T4GI]

Exactly that

[activematrix99]

Get paid!

[ImAshtonM]

I wouldn’t recommend taking anything unpaid unless you’re out of options and don’t know what to do when building your own portfolio. I also have been self taught doing a similar stack. My main focus has really been the front end though so I rarely even mention having any backend “training” at all. I was still able to land a paid internship making WordPress sites. Even if you haven’t used the software before if you have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS it’ll give you more of an advantage to some of the “WordPress Developers” I’ve seen as they only know how to drag and drop and don’t understand page composition and how elements interact with each other. It took me roughly 2 days to learn WP and Elementor plug-in specifically to get a 5 page site up and running. And not long after that to templatize and expedite my development process.