Very cool post, thank you! I really enjoy your writing style, and it's nice to see how you think about the topic. Lot to learn about data structures for sure. I'm using the basics I learnt about them every day, probably going into trees shortly. Good luck, keep going, and well done :)

Thank you very much for your response Tobias, I really appreciate the insight, you confirm quite a lot of my suspicions I'm having. I strongly agree with you, recommending to work on strong, complex projects with active problem solving, and I love the approach of using your past niches and interests as a focus for projects. Helped me building the trading app, I love working on anything role playing based, and I have multiple future side projects planned in bartending and hospitality, once I gained some experience. There are some pain points nobody is even trying to address. I am loving my current job, and working really hard on that particular product, so that is where my focus is at the moment. I would love to show you the D&D app, but unfortunately, we decided not to finish it. It was using an old (3.5) version of D&D that not many people use it anymore, and for the new versions, there are official, free alternatives we don't want to compete with. It was a blast to build it, benefitted us both, and we will find other cool projects to work on on the side :) Thank you again for weighing in, I always love to see a more experienced opinion, adds a lot of value to the post. Keep pushing everyone, the jobs are there!

I hope this helps! Best of luck to your journey, and feel free to reach out if you need any help, or just some encouragement.

Thank you, really glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! I really hope I can read a lot of success stories like mine, this time next year. If I contributed to any, it was worth writing this down :)

Thank you Raj! In my personal opinion, I think I got away with it pretty cheap. Considering all the stories I hear from people in different parts of the world, I consider myself extremely privileged. I hope my point of view helps though :)

Thank you! Definitely so. It's not an easy thing to do, and there are going to be frustrations, but it's a lot easier to deal with them, if you expect them, and know how to tackle them head on. Fingers crossed for you, keep working hard!

Very nicely written overview. For me, being mostly sceptic about Web3 as it is represented in social media, this was a very refreshing read. Looking forward to see how the Web3 space evolves, and keeping an eye on how technical solutions, and use cases evolve. Thank you for the summary, good stuff!

Very glad to hear, thank you very much! It's so much easier if we help each other, I'm looking after a couple of friends as well like that. The industry desperately needs fresh talents, and employers who give them their first chance. Thank you!

Hi John! Congrats for the advanced exam, hats off. I did almost 2 and a half weeks of German in elementary school, that was about enough for this quarter of the century. I am thinking about picking it up at some point, even if only for my surname. People trying to speak German to me sometimes is kind of a recurring theme. Good luck with building your portfolio. Once you are ready to share, I would love to have a look. Taking an extra step with my projects proved incredibly useful for me. If you find it difficult to start, I would recommend to start small, but step ahead, like I did with my mini projects. Very simple stuff, that has something special going for it. Then you can build up for larger ones. When it comes to an interview then, you will have a clear reason to talk about anything you build, and a strong answer of what did you learn from it. I'll check out your article as well! Thanks for reading!