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2016-04-07 20:03:46 Post No. 53921122
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2016-04-07 20:03:46
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Advice for "guiding" my professional development please.
I finished college last year and started looking for a job, there's this fucking asshole that I worked for in an internship that has been talking shit about me when asked for references. I don't want to get into that but let's just say that even though I made mistakes, if he needs to make up lies to make me look worse, then it wasn't actually that bad. This made my job hunt harder.
I ended up taking a frontend dev gig at a hipster startup. I like everything about this job, the company, the workplace, what we're making... except obviously my role. I joined Computer Science in the first place because I loved algorithms, through college I fell in love with it due to stuff like processor architecture, operating systems, machine learning and algorithms&data structures. And now I'm doing fucking HTML+CSS with a horrible codebase that used to be outsourced to poo2loos.
This is like literally the only aspect of software engineering I dont like. I took the job because I needed money badly, and because as I said some aspects of it are good. And I'm going to keep at it for at least a year obviously for stability (being able to take the asshole I mentioned out of my resume and still have +1yr of experience, and saving some money), and after that what? I don't want my next job after this to be frontend, that's for sure. I have no idea how to avoid getting stuck in this ie not getting hired for anything else. I also can't afford to study a masters in order to get into the really interesting shit.
Oh and by the way I don't live in the US. Not in a poor country either luckily, im in western (mainland) europe, but the usa is where this industry is actually interesting so thats one more inconvenient for me. You may say going to the usa is a possibility but there's a bazillion of pajeets trying to do the same and i'd be on the same level as them.
