You're fresh out of uni/college with your cs degree, you've sent your cv out 500 times and been rejected or ghosted by everyone.Just want to remind some of you that you don't have to work for a company.Do it yourself.You don't have to build little side projects for your CV and slam leetcode 24/7.You can go out to small business and build things for them to solve their problems.There is a shitload of small businesses that make good money and don't know what to do; or don't know how retarded and inefficient the shit they do right now is.I've been doing this for the past two years now, I enjoy it so much more than my previous job, and most of the shit I'm doing is less complicated/much more chill.Then if you hate it after a while you now have experience to go find a desk job.pic vaguely related, I've been doing this for the past two years. Anyone else do some similar shit?
>>109535279ChatGPT-maxxing text?
>>109535291nope i actually wrote this myself, just got a bit depressed seeing all the people in /utwg/ i guess it does look a bit sloppy, probably need to work on my writing¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>109535319Suggest you to not use this cringe-like "No, you can do it" and that ChatGPT stuff.Also, small-businesses are generally not interested in random stuff.Best thing to do is bug bounty.
>>109535332Yeah fair.I disagree, there are so many businesses out there that could use a simple CRUD app to tidy up their business practices.It was a little hard getting started but it really didn't take that long and I'm seeing people here talking about months and months being jobless.It feels great too when you can make something that's fairly basic but has some simple bespoke features for them and they love it.So many businesses still rely on paper because they have some special way of quoting or etc that can't be handled by something off the shelf.
>>109535352Interesting. I didn't know that. And how do you find such companies?
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>>109535365Probably depends where in the world you are, I just sent out emails and cold calls to various businesses that typically are pretty 'oldschool', mechanics, body shops, scaffolding companies, construction etc.I mostly focus on companies that need simple job management or quoting systems.Again it's mostly just CRUD shit so it really is easy but most of these businesses have decades of doing something their specific way and don't want to change, so if they ever did look at becoming more 'modern' they probably didn't find anything that works for them.Building or modifying something to be bespoke for them doesn't take that much.>>109535372go back to /b/
