Comment on Got laid off my first job out of college after three months, Help!
CheatCodeSam@lemmy.world 1 year agoI hold all three major Kubernetes certifications and I’ve still struggled before I found this position. I probably just need to apply harder than before. I think I’m going to start working on a solutions architect. Thank you for the kind words.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t agree more with regards to career development. When I graduated from college way back in 1990 I wanted to do software development. It took me six months of job hunting that resulted in only 5 interviews and a single job offer to do telephone tech support for a business products software company.
I spent two years doing tech support and used that time to learn the internals of the product and even wrote some programs in C that demonstrated some of our platforms integrations for our business clients. I was eventually noticed by a couple senior software engineers who started mentoring me and helped me move from tech support to software development full time.
After a decade or so of software development I transitioned into a DevOps role in a similar manner - started doing some of that sort of work on my own, got noticed, then encouraged to change roles. I’ve been doing that for close to 20 years and am very happy where I am now.