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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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How are you supposed to get good at it if you can't get hired? Work for free for a while?
I dunno, I learnt as a hobby. I think most programmers I know did too.
I was going to say something about self teaching or volunteering (eg: working on open source stuff for free), but like giving your labor away for free kind of sucks. Do we expect other fields to do that? Are accountants just doing finance for free?
Also you won't learn important stuff like how to work in a professional context. I've met hobby programmers that don't know how to work on a team.
You're not entirely wrong but I don't think it's a perfect solution
You should then average the salary over the time you were paid 0 because you were learning on your own, too