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Submitted by MtownNaylor
MtownNaylor writes "I graduated high school two days ago and am currently enrolled to attend college for studying Computer Science. I spent last summer working as a contractor, programming in Java doing work for a single company. I am looking to further either my career, my education, or both this summer. The problem is that I have found it difficult to find summer employment or internships programming for a multitude of reasons (lack of opportunities, lack of experience, lack of degree.) So what is a high school graduate who wants to work as a programmer to do?"
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  • Take the time now to enjoy the time you have. You might be too busy in college, and you WILL be too busy when you get a real job.

    Besides, it's been my experience while I was a TA for computer science that kids with "experience" thought they knew it all and didn't bother to properly learn design patterns.
  • Try and get a job in the "real world". As a student I worked for a pharmaceuticals company and a fairly high-tech (for those days) manufacturing company. The result was that I learned a fair bit about instruments and statistics. If you do computer science, unless you are good enough to get an academic job, you will be designing for some application field. If you have an idea about what goes on in some application field, you will be more aware of the issues around success and failure.

    Case in point: I once em

  • Looks good on a resume, gets you some experience, might move you out of your usual skill set.
    Down side is you don't really get paid. But if you don't have a job anyway....

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

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