Help Finding a Job

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I wanna be an engineer so bad! so far I only have a few months of experience but learned a lot. I'm currently working a job out of engineering just to put some money in my pocket, but I hate it. Can anyone help?? Skills so far are: Python, JavaScript, Node, React, Django, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, GKE. Please anything will do!

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Start learning the clouds, plenty of free material on each one - maybe start with AWS since it is most dominant. Get a certification or two.

Look at the "Who's Hiring" post, and post your info on the "Who wants to be hired?" post (monthly each).

Start learning/using ChatGPT and related coding tools like CodeWhisperer.

Market is trash right now, but maybe ping some startups and ask for very small projects that they might consider outsourcing. Prob not attractive to them because their overhead in checking out your work just would be too much of a distraction, but you never know.

Try applying to jobs at startups with customized messaging to their product.

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