MsgingABottle's comments

Thank you so much for this thoughtful post—this is enormously helpful and encouraging.

This is a great idea! Definitely feels outside my current skill set—which has mostly come from working with Unity and C#—but seems like a good, attainable, challenging way to put some work in toward that end. Thanks for the advice!

It's been about four months. I've been going through friends and connections too, but they've mostly fizzled out.

Thanks for the thoughtful response! I've heard—and believe—that it'll get much easier to move forward after this next big step, but it's hard to feel like I'm just treading water.

I'll definitely check out the BoroughJS meetups, thanks for that.

Also, very much agree that a bootcamp on a resumé isn't an indicator of much—there were a very broad range of attitudes and skill sets at mine, and I think it's getting broader with every incoming cohort.

I totally agree.

I've been in regular communication with a couple career development people via Slack, and saw one during an on-campus event recently. They're supportive, but their advice is mostly "Keep going!"

I should ask what the traits of senior people are—I've had some really nice conversations with interviewers by asking, "If you were in my position, what would you be doing?" Sometimes it seems like they just want me out of their hair after the rejection, which I understand.

Yeah, my bootcamp taught Angular and I taught myself React and built a couple apps with it. Haven't looked at Vue, I should do that. And no, haven't used RxJS—I'll look into that, thanks!

My technical answers have been solid so far. My "time when things were difficult" stories were a little clumsy out the gate—I'm coming from a field where I never, ever got asked questions like that—but I'm getting them together now.

I appreciate your words of advice and support! The advice to take a week off is especially good, and something I should probably put an effort toward. I've been in go-mode unremittingly since June of last year, and keep putting relaxation off because I don't want to miss an opportunity.

Thanks for the advice and the words of support—much appreciated!

edit: To everyone else—thanks for the replies, I really appreciate everyone's feedback. I want to be replying faster, but HN isn't letting me add any more comments. I'll respond as I can!

The bootcamp focused on JS; I've been dabbling with Python, C#, Elm, and Haskell. That's a great idea; I actually poked into it a bit a couple months ago, but had trouble finding projects with issues that were approachable. Is there a resource for looking up suitable projects, or am I best off going to projects I know about and bouncing from there?

Two positions a day.

I've done some mass-applying with things like AngelList, but generally I like to take the time to research a company, write a thoughtful cover letter, etc. It'd be hard to do that 100 times a day, especially if I'm going to do anything else with my day. Do you think quantity is more important than quality?