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No Recent Grad Open Source Jobs for Non-Rockstars
As I continue my job search, I realized the difficulty of finding open source jobs for recent graduates. Especially if you aren’t a rockstar programmer. Unless people know you, and you worked on a high profile open source project, there seems no real way of working in the open source business. Open source businesses have…
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Productization of Self
Wonder where I have been in the past few days? Still job hunting and figuring how best to market myself to prospective employers. Its not easy for a few reasons. First, is most people don’t learn about how to do this sort of thing until they hit unemployment line. I for one don’t claim to…
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Adjusting to Easy Schedule
I am not good at adjustments. The switch from a super-busy, near-hyper-kinetic schedule to a “normal” lighter schedule keeps on throwing me off. Hence the lack of updates since Friday. Yesterday was the great chill day. Today was the great after-chill day. Meaning, I did not get too much done when it comes to assignments…
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Why Open Source Projects Make Sense Career Wise
Greetings Earthlings! (OK enough silliness for one day, back into the pocket you go Martian.) Once again I have to bring up the sort of lame excuse of being too busy to blog earlier. Well yes, it was lame too much work. Actually I killed my “1337” Gentoo box doing an update. So I basically…