I'm in the same boat as you, but the above advice is good advice. I'm looking for any job so that I can pay my bills while I take online classes and complete Ruby on Rails tutorial.
I also have 2-3 ideas that I want to develop that I can showcase. These projects are just vehicles to showcase my technical expertise. Then I'll apply for positions and use my portfolio I have made to showcase experience.
This is actively working towards your goal. If you can't find a job in the profession you want, you have to generate the opportunities yourself!
Shoot me an email at james@brewerhimself.com sometime; I'd be interested to hear what you think about Udacity. I'm taking the Introduction to Statistics class right now myself.
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No offence, but I'm looking for something more proactive. :) I want to actively work towards my goal, not wait for something to come along.
I'm in the same boat as you, but the above advice is good advice. I'm looking for any job so that I can pay my bills while I take online classes and complete Ruby on Rails tutorial.
I also have 2-3 ideas that I want to develop that I can showcase. These projects are just vehicles to showcase my technical expertise. Then I'll apply for positions and use my portfolio I have made to showcase experience.
This is actively working towards your goal. If you can't find a job in the profession you want, you have to generate the opportunities yourself!
I was thinking about working on a Reddit clone while making some open source contributions. How does that sound?
Go for it man! the RoR Tutorial builds a twitter clone. The process of making the clone is the learning period.
Once I'm done with going through RoR, I want to develop my own blog from scratch.
I'm also taking some Udacity classes and Coursera as well.
Lastly, get involved, do some volunteer work (e.g. design a site for a nonprofit, church, whatever..)
Those kids from Standford started programming at a young age, but they built up a nice portfolio, you should do the same.
Shoot me an email at james@brewerhimself.com sometime; I'd be interested to hear what you think about Udacity. I'm taking the Introduction to Statistics class right now myself.