Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
I&#x27;m honestly experiencing this as a CS grad in the Dutch job market. I find it weird and frustrating.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed why:<p>1. Companies don&#x27;t dare to value creativity [1]. University is so liberal and the job market is so the opposite.<p>2. Most companies can&#x27;t value a CS degree. The exception is when enough people in the company did a CS degree and that&#x27;s a lot more rare than I thought.<p>3. University didn&#x27;t teach me to focus on a portfolio and I got distracted with doing multiple degrees all at the same time fast-tracked (nobody cares that I fast-tracked), which (as you can see in point 2) proves that I&#x27;m worth very little. It taught me a lot personally and made me smarter (in terms of crystalized intelligence). But my portfolio is rather terrible compared to what I&#x27;m capable of.<p>I&#x27;ll fix it, but right now I&#x27;m just tired of being not called back (50% of the time) or rejected (the other 50%). I know I&#x27;m capable, and pass the bar. I&#x27;m not perfect, I&#x27;m not the best, but I&#x27;m capable.<p>[1] I created an app called Doodledocs which is a Canvas-based app that allows P2P privacy free collaborative doodling with a pressure sensitive stylus. In my interviews with companies they don&#x27;t trust enough that I&#x27;d be capable helping along with CRUD applications, because I didn&#x27;t do any CRUD in the Doodledocs app. And I&#x27;m just thinking: figuring out how to do WebRTC for free in a serverless manner (while seeing all of it for the first time) is a lot tougher than writing some models for a basic login system that you already know about (the same can be said for poking around in VMs in view libraries like Glimmer). Anyways, it&#x27;s on a show HN right now see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21399910" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21399910</a> -- also for anyone who wants to do free WebRTC, check the Bugout library, it&#x27;s really cool. If you have any questions about it, I can walk you through it (I understand most to all of it). My email is my hn username at gmail.