Chicago - LOL
I was expecting some tiny city.
I found over 50 meetups with only 60 seconds of effort??? If you can't make it work in Chicago, development might not be for you bro.
Head over to building 1871. It looks like a good start.
I was expecting some tiny city.
I found over 50 meetups with only 60 seconds of effort??? If you can't make it work in Chicago, development might not be for you bro.
Head over to building 1871. It looks like a good start.
Hack-a-thons are kind of hit and miss. You get a stronger chance to make a good impression on two or three guys.
MeetUps - you have the whole community which knows each other. You can for example say that you're interested in picking up contract work or pairing with anyone anytime. At a MeetUp, someone will say..."I know Dave is looking for a person to pair with as he's never trained anyone and he's just been promoted". That stuff is hard to come by at a Hack-a-thon and to be frank, great programers at a hack-a-thon have difficulty even finding small features for new dev's to develop.
I remember my first hack-a-thon I worked with a great team, but I ended up working on the "About us" page, because I really couldn't contribute as much as I would have liked.
Stay with it - MeetUps are ten times better for future employment than Hack-a-thons in my humble opinion. That's not to say that a Hack-a-thon couldn't be end up creating an opportunity, but the circle is soooo much smaller.
the weird thing is, they are all getting offers for entry level positions and these companies wont even consider me as a possibility.