I’m New to Tech, but Entry-Level Jobs Aren’t
I’ve spent the last few weeks applying for internship roles on LinkedIn and Google, and honestly? It’s wild how few opportunities actually exist.
What’s even wilder is the job requirements.
Entry-level, but somehow they want years of experience, multiple references, a portfolio and the “ability to work under pressure”
Sir… I just got here.
I quite literally have not been alive long enough to have ten years of anything. And the pressure part? Did school, exams, deadlines, and survival not already cover that?
I’m joking — kind of.
After a few weeks of applying, it’s easy to spiral. You start thinking you’re not ready yet. That you need one more course, one more tutorial, one more practice round. And that’s how people get stuck — forever preparing, never entering.
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So I got curious instead of discouraged.
One piece of advice I found changed my perspective completely:
stop building fake projects and start solving real problems.
Not another weather app. Not another cloned landing page. (Nothing wrong with them — but hear me out.)
Find a real business with a real problem.
A broken website.
A slow checkout.
A confusing interface.
Cold email them. Offer your skills. Fix the problem.
That becomes experience.
Not theoretical. Not simulated. Real.
This is the path I’m choosing — while still applying, still hoping, still trusting that the right opportunity will meet me where I am.
So if you feel behind, you’re not.
You’re just learning how to play the long game.
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