• zettajon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Do what it takes to pass your classes in university, but prioritize finding an internship or entry level job for your career. No one cares about your GPA, but all entry level jobs want experience.

    To avoid the chicken-and-egg problem of graduating and never getting a job because they want experience, and you can’t get the experience unless they give you a job, get an entry level job in college and try to get extra responsibilities in that job for your resume.

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      1 year ago

      No one told me how important internships were. I still got a job but I definitely was behind my peers. A lot of them left for top companies. My first job wasn’t nearly as good and it took me several years to start making the same pay they were.