I changed major from mechanical engineering to computer science in college and ended up taking longer to graduate due to various reasons. Those reasons also made my grades tank from 4.0 to 2.7 by the time I graduated 3 years ago with the bachelor's. The computer science industry is uber fucked for starting positions currently in the US and I have been unable to procure a single interview. I can circumvent the bad grades by beefing up my portfolio and github with good work, which is fortunate. However, I need a job in the meantime. What are some industries where my skills might fit well based on all this? What's the secret to getting a job nowadays?
>>34650112Hahaha you tell me nigga.
>What's the secret to getting a job nowadays?being a good slave, meaning you would do anything for your job and have zero needs yourself, surely not some audacious things like being paid more than minimum wage, being treated with basic human decency or being allowed to have human needs like food, sleep or using the bathroom basically, be perfect or get lost
why are you waiting three years to talk about doing projects to buffer for your bad grades? that's what you do during recruiting season your senior year
>>34650112>What are some industries where my skills might fitYou are asking the exactly right question. Think outside the boxes of CS or engineering. What sorts of thinking have your studies made you good at, and where would that sort of thinking be wanted?Personally, as one of the very very few college grads of the past 20 years who didn't do CS, I don't know what you're good at. But among my friends I saw that an English major who could analyze and interpret poetry learned very quickly how to analyze and interpret sales figures. A history major who could research Napoleon did well in law school researching precedents. And after writing loads of lab reports I was able to become a technical writer in an entirely different science.
