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What am I qualified to do?

4 points by singlepaynews ↗ HN
I could use some help establishing a career direction. My most recent job was as a patent examiner at the USPTO examining in AI. Before that I launched a PERN stack webapp singlepaynews.com, before that I fixed the Seattle DOT’s permit tracking system (Python scripts that read from sql and wrote to docstore were broken by a vendor’s api update), and before that I taught for 3 years at Central Washington University.

M.S. CS; B.Eng. EE; my most significant internship was doing DO-160 electronics test—you write a script to run a function generator and oscilloscope that verifies your power conversion circuit performs and faults as advertised.

I know that the whole world is struggling with getting jobs right now, but I could use an outside perspective on my resume—I’m not sure what I could reasonably do

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rywalker
* Find a startup in your local ecosystem, help them build their product (for free if you must).

* Use AI (Claude Code, Cursor). Get great at this.

* With a little experience (and talent) you can be a next-gen startup CTO/senior dev.

* I'm absolutely not kidding.

gus_massa
In case it's useful, there are three official monthly threads HN about jobs. They will be posted again tomorrow Tuesday. Perhaps you can post in one of the threads and take a look of at the others.

If can peek last month edition (read onlu now) or wait and see the new ones in https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

PS: Do yo have a blog with some of your projects? A followup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426726 would be nice to read.