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How did you manage to make the transition? I'm doing a PhD in music tech, lots of coding but not necessarily commercial applications. I'm not sure academia will work out for me as the jobs are so scarce and hard to get not to mention the insanity of things like impact and the REF (UK). Any insight would be great!

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I made a bunch of mobile games with Unity that worked as a porfolio for Unity Development jobs. I had been wanting to transition into more traditional software development, and I was fortunate enough to be able to learn a front end stack at my previous job. I made this project over nights and weekends, and it was a significant factor in me getting my current job doing react development:

https://bitmelo.com

My best advice would be to try to make projects that are undeniably good. So good a company would be dumb not to hire you. Def easier said then done though.

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