Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Tech Market

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> “It’s more important to get started than to have a perfect start.”

So true. This goes for your first job as well as any side project or company you want to build.

False. It's crucial to have a good start. "[W]e find that negative impacts on socioeconomic outcomes persist in the long run. In midlife, recession graduates earned less, while working more. And they were less likely to be married and more likely to be childless."[1]

Also see the extensive review of citations on the effects of entering the labor force during a downturn in the same publication.

In a nutshell: go bide your time in a master's program until conditions improve. It's what people with options do.

[1] https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/recessi...

The problem with open-source contributions is that many projects don't have documentation and some don't even have a Slack/Discord channel where they hang out so you can ask questions. If anyone knows a well document open-source project looking for contributors please share? (has to have decent amount of stars)

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