Career path guidance

Career Advice
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Hi guys,

I am a beginner learning coding just started off with Freecodecamp’s curriculum around 2 months back. When would be an appropriate time to start looking for an internship/job ? I mean when do you think is a person ready ? I am now in the Javascript Algorithms certification course . Also how relevant is learning Wordpress for getting a job ? The reason I am asking this is because I have found so many jobs/internships which either look for Wordpress skills or flutter/react native , there’s nothing else in the middle :sweat_smile: so I’m a little confused as to when I will actually be able to use my new learnt skills to start earning. Also do you guys think it would be better to take up a project like building a ecommerce website using react/flutter etc and then going and diving into each individual components to learn instead of following the course curriculum sequentially? I used to work as an HR but lost my job so was thinking should I just look for another HR job or start looking for some kind of internship which would need entry level skills and then build up into career as a software developer from there Looking forward to any suggestions/help from anyone.

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2 months of learning to code definitely isn’t enough time to get job ready. There isn’t a specific cutoff that works for everyone, but I like to remind people that their competition for junior coding jobs have 4 year degrees, so you should expect an equivalent level of effort to be competitive.

Programming internships are largely just a thing for undergraduate students as far as I am aware.

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okk understood. And how relevant is learning wordpress ?

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I think you answered your own question.

I would suggest you add PHP to the list if you are going to work with WP.