Title: I have under 1 year total lifetime experience with full-time work, which was in 2010. That doesn&#x27;t just include software engineering work (which is what I have done for the past several years)- that includes <i>every</i> type of job I&#x27;ve done since I started taking jobs while in high school.<p>I&#x27;ve went back and counted my jobs- at department stores, B2B clients, campus work etc. and I only found one year where I was actually a full-time employee of any kind.<p>In the meantime I fell into a holding pattern of freelance&#x2F;temp work with little to show in building my network. Many failed attempts to get hired full-time as a SWE are a cause for concern.<p>Also, I am about 2 years away from reaching 40.<p>I&#x27;m not quite the same as a spoiled kid who didn&#x27;t need to work for most of their life. I simply am a guy who has held lot of temporary jobs, but displays little &quot;career intelligence&quot;.<p>What advice would you give to an adult that is a late bloomer in professional stability and growth and wants to build a career? How do people build a network from almost zero in a post-COVID world? I might want to glean experiences of class of 2020 students too, to get an idea of network building in difficult times, since I find myself to have more in common with students than the average 30-something professional.
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