sigh
i’m graduating next may and feeling extremely anxious about the whole job thing. i don’t think i’m necessarily awful at interviews, but i’m fucking terrified of them. i’ve gone through several different rounds for internships and i’m just a sweaty, nervous mess no matter how much prep i do. i hate the fact that every round i meet with someone new and i have to re-pitch myself to them. i wish i could just sit down with an engineer and walk through a real-life problem with them. how did you guys go about getting your first industry-related job? am i just targeting the wrong companies?
I applied to a ton of jobs, had about 25 interviews. Was turned down for all of them.
Finally I got a job offer, they told me I would have to cut my hair in order to work for them. I told them to bugger off, had about another 10 interviews and rejections before I finally had an interview with a tech company where the guy interviewing me was an even bigger hippie than I was.
I landed the job.
as a fellow long-haired person, hell yea. it’s sort of reassuring to see that most of the responses i see here and on similar threads is to just cast a wide net and eventually something will land.
from my experience, cutting your hair to chin-length suffices to land a job