I graduated in May with my associates degree, and sadly after applying a bit nothing, not even a reply email. I am convinced I am just unprepared for this industry, I will admit I don’t have a GitHub with 1 billion contributions, and a bunch of connections. but can I seriously get nothing. I can’t afford the 25K needed for my bachelors. I am honestly considering put in my applications to target or whatever and giving up.
I just feel like none of this is reasltic given I will be working most of the time, and unable to maintain anything. If I’m only home 1-2 hours a day how can I maintain anything
Do you work 7 days a week?
Because most people usually still have some semblance of weekends off, and usually it is on weekends that I maintain my personal projects.
Yes, you’ll need to work a full time job, live with roommates, and make ends meet while you assemble your portfolio on Github, ideally.
I primarily applied to a couple jobs a day, every workday, on my breaks at work on my phone. It’s pretty easy to just pop open LinkedIn on my phone during breaks and fire off a couple applications with ChatGPT generated cover letters.
On weekends I’d apply to more, but mostly put my energy into meal prepping for the week to conserve energy on one of my weekend days, and then the other just focusing on my projects.