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god my college is not only useless but absolutely career sabotaging
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@cell Didn't at all teach anything of any worth, absolutely useless peers, created a culture of complacency, wasted time in bullshit, didn't allow us to do internships until like the final year and didn't give any time to find any now.
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@meeper @cell
if it's IT, do some certificates maybe? as a student and in your geo region they should be affordable.
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@meeper @cell it depends on the HR person and the cert. like CompTIA is okay if you did Security+ etc.

alternatively and equally valid is volunteering for open source, e.g. becoming an Arch package maintainer. don't become FOSS/FSF bro, that one is a career-hindering move.
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@meeper @lain @cell
the projects you are most interested and personally invested in, as long as it's not adult topic or anime Sheew
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@cell @kaia @meeper i feel like kaia has reverse survivorship bias here thinking_cirno

sure dont spent 40h per week for the next 255 years on open source u dont get paid for. (unless u dont need money)
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@cell @kaia @meeper so far being able to differentiate between licenses is a good thing. and i feel like more companies here learn that open sourcing your software is a net positive for them.


side rant:
sadly i feel like chinese companies often are on the opposite spectrum. they use free software and than they break the license.
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@cell @kaia @meeper yeah. but culturally they could open source everything.
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@lain @kaia @cell @meeper I had no energy left during my apprenticeship to actually do anything on the side. Before I didn't do that much either, but I also don't want to spend significant amounts of my time working aside from a full-time job and I don't think I can keep that up either. Which is one of the reasons why I'm trying to change careers now.
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@kaia @cell @meeper >don't become FOSS/FSF bro, that one is a career-hindering move.
"FOSS" is half about licking corporate boot, thus that won't hinder a "career".

Being a freedom enjoyer will ensure that you don't undergo the immoral acts of stealing people's freedom with proprietary malware, but why would that prevent you from carrying out any job that you certainly don't want to be employed in.
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@kaia @cell @meeper does HR really differentiate between volunteering for the open source cuck-licensed (MIT) project or the enlightened AGPLv3+ librecore software project with a soulful CC-Zero 2003-style cartoon mascot? That's bleak
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