Prompt questions:

What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards

Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)

Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)

Best meal you’ve had

Best place you’ve visited

        • ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          A lot of it has been family and college. The college I attended has a research group that allows students to do internships.

          The college also runs job fairs every one in a while. Those kinds of things I huge.

          Conventions of any kind as well, where you can speak to people in booths, or even any of the other attendees.

      • ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        My first ever job was running a wood chipper under my uncles tree business. Did that almost every weekend for a number of years. Even sometimes in the winter. I wasn’t even a teenager when I first started this job.

        Second job was working in a warehouse at a company my mom worked at. They really needed weekend help.

        My third job was doing landscaping over the summer at a smallish company where my brother in law worked at. The owner loved to hire students for cheap.

        Fourth was a few software development internships ran by a research group at my college. I had a friend who was part of the group and vouched for me.

        My current job is my first true career job as a software engineer. The project manager from one of the internships I had actually got a job as CTO at this company. Offered me a junior position there out of college. Been there almost 6 years.

        I have applied to places where I certainly would have needed interviews, but I was never offered an opportunity.

        To make this even more awesome is that I’ve interviewed candidates myself at my current job for junior positions.