Ask HN: Where do you go for career advice?

1 points by non-entity 7y ago ↗ HN

I'm a very lost right now as to my career and a number of things surrounding it. I've tried r/cscareerquestions on Reddit and their discord, but it seems that it's mostly students with high hopes and I found myself lending more advice than receiving. I've also made posts on HN on the past asking specifics, but they rarely gain more any traction.

Is there any good places you know of for this stuff? I'm at a point right now in my life where I feel like I'm wasting.

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ytNumbers 7y ago ↗

Sounds like you've been looking for free career advice. That's an extremely important subject. Accordingly, quality advice for that subject is likely to cost you a small amount of money. If you get good advice, it will be the best money you've ever spent. If you're willing to spend less than $100 for the advice, you could try contacting this person:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronClarey/videos https://www.patreon.com/AaronClarey

ux4 7y ago ↗

Talk to a recruiter, reach out to a staffing agency, or occupational therapist.

Receiving career advice online isn't very useful unless you live in the bay area or know the credibility of the person giving advice. Odds are your local labor market has a completely different landscape with different skill requirements.

siriniok 6y ago ↗

I totally understand your frustration. I was happy to met a wonderful mentor in the early days of my career. I was expecting to hear mainly technical stuff, but instead he was talking about soft skills, empathy, lifestyle, communications and so on. Only few months later I've realized how actually important was all that stuff for my career.

So that's what I would recommend to you: find a good mentor who looks beyond hard skills. It's hard, but look for a fellow who is happy about their career :D.

Another thing I would highly recommend is to find an accountability partner or join a mastermind group. Those can be your peers who are interested in meeting from time to time and talk about career-related topics. You can discuss your goals and progress, work-related problems, and keep each other accountable. That helps a lot in actually making progress more than anything else.

Hope this is helpful. If you want to talk more about all these things, I'm always open to chat.