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I want experience and you want software (maybe) (programming.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrainThinkerMan@programming.dev to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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Living in the u.s looking for experience so I thought to do contract work through lemmy ie Tell me a project you'd like me to build, I build it. What do you gain? A software you want maybe you diddnt have time to build, what do I gain? Experience to put on my resume instead of just projects to say I was a contractor for x person (you) also I won't put your real name I'll put the software name. Or i can contribute to your open source long term. Should I make this request on forums or blogs ? Or do you guys think this might be a dead end ?

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Makes sense. Might be hard though.
Would be a good idea to start by adding what types of programs you are good at, i.e. the projects.

Also, there is no lack of OSS projects to work on. Take for instance:

LibreOffice
any of the project you might find on invent.kde.org and bugs.kde.org
Blender

For paid work though, it becomes harder. You need to be good at advertising yourself correctly to the correct client and I (as someone who failed to advertise myself) am not the correct person to give suggestions on that.