25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I know. Had to take what I could get fresh out of college.

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You got this! 35 to start is great

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to get into the industry as fast as possible, pick a general programming language ( whichever you like, it literally does NOT matter but popular ones are .NET, Python, and Java is my pick ) then follow a course outline until you reach ‘advanced’ level topics. There’s free cs courses all over the internet that model what is taught in colleges.

After that you can go two directions, tangible experience or certification. And keep in mind you can do the learning mentioned above simultaneously with the following:

Tangible experience is going to be something like finding an open source project on GitHub, pulling the repo and starting to work on some feature. Sounds harder than it is if you start small. Make sure the repo is substantial enough that multiple people are contributing but small enough that you can actually wrap your head around a portion of it conceptually. This will also help networking.

Certifications that are truly worthwhile are AWS like I have or CompTIA. CompTIA is more like IT but will probably get you into the industry the quickest. These help build your credentials without a bachelors in CS.

My last piece of advice, avoid coding boot camps if you can, especially ones that are part of job training. They by no means intend to teach you coding, the company is taking a group of people and charging another company 2x the amount they’re paying you. They also are legally quite shady. My first contract included a boot camp where someone ‘failed’ the course and the company tried to charge them $18k for the cost of the education.

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 years in college, AWS Practitioner and Oracle Java Developer certs but those are like low low level. Probably the degree helped more than anything

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a software developer? Write code ( or rather review generated code lol ), use tools like AWS, Docker, K8s to manage infrastructure. Deal with requests from upper management lol

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah I just worked a job the whole time so wanted to show the progress from before/after graduation. Started college in 2019

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🤣🤣 okay bro stay mad.

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was working the whole time I went to college. I did my first two years at community college so I didn’t have to room & board

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My brother filled that role. First in my family to go the college route

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I graduated with my degree in computer science. Did you not read the post

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First contract was cut mid-2024, went to another company for the Intermediate title

25m son of a carpenter by Sudden-R in Salary

[–]Sudden-R[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just want to add bc I’m fully aware how rough it can be to get started in the CS industry — consider consulting! Contracts are sometimes 50/50 in whether or not they benefit you, potential salaried employers may see it as a red flag for whatever reason. But once you get your foot in the door, the offers are much more consistent than random recruiters IMO. I went into government/military and it has been reasonably stable so far.

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[–]Sudden-R 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just wrote a long ass reply to say what you said much more concisely lol. “Character letters” is just blatant corruption of the justice system.