On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, benjamin barber wrote: > An internship at FreeGeek will not teach you anything relevant to your > computer science degree. If you would have looked at the trends, you may > have noticed that programming jobs are shrinking. Furthermore building > websites is a possibility, but there is a plethora of easy wordpress and > wix templates, and alot of the rest of the work has been outsourced and > offshored. If you have the said degree and have a github of your work, you > may be able to get a job with the said experience. Most of the (good) jobs > in the webdev industry are "software as a service", for example jobs that > automate some process, or provide a service to people willing to pay for > it.
There may be greater employment potential outside the computer industry. Many years ago a neighbor wrote software (and built controllers) to convert sawmills from large log use to small log use. Manufacturers often need embedded computers in their products and folks to write the software or maintain it. What Michael should consider is attending some general Portland business networking events with a bunch of self-printed business cards. I've been at several in which hotel/restaurant/hospitality managers as well as other business folks look for help (as well as potential clients). Perhaps a Chamber of Commerce breakfast/after-work gettogether would be worth attending. Perhaps no attendee needs his expertise but might know of someone else who does. The majority of 'good' jobs come from referrals or direct contact and are never advertised. Look outside the traditional (and very crowded) CS/IT/programming arena and there are likely to be many hidden opportunities. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
