I’m a career transitioner looking to get a higher paying job working as a Web Developer. I’ve been self teaching for a bit over 3.5 years now and am currently working part time at a very small start up while still working on my own personal projects and slowly researching and studying CS topics.

I have been networking, mainly online and some locally. I also have been trying desperately to get away from mainstream social media platforms (left instagram, left reddit). But I find myself being highly encouraged by those within my network to keep my LinkedIn profile maintained and regularly post as a part of appealing to recruiters. I dislike the LinkedIn platform and what I perceive to be toxic positivity that proliferates on there. I also have reservations on hosting all my code on Github, but that seems to be what everyone defaults to for showcasing their portfolio.

I generally want to use alternatives to FAANG products whenever possible, and even though it’s not in the acronym, I include Microsoft in this list. I’d like to move away from using Microsoft products (LinkedIn) and their acquired platforms (Github) without nuking my potential career prospects.

This is more asking about long term advice as I believe as a new developer, this may not be possible (?).

Nevertheless, I’m seeking any advice on how to still advance my career in tech while staying off of these major platforms.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

TLDR; New web developer wants advice on how to continue to advance career without use of major media platforms, specifically LinkedIn, but also Github.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I post essential details only on LinkedIn, and all my cool stuff on my personal website.

    I started a personal website around when MySpace went away, and I realized I would have to migrate my posts every decade if I wanted to use someone else’s solution.

    I could post links to my blog articles to LinkedIn, but I don’t bother. I probably would if my professional network was not already where I want it to be.

    I do automatically post my Blog RSS to Mastodon. I considered doing the same for Lemmy, but I don’t honestly want more blog readers, or to talk to anyone who reads my blog. I like how, on Mastodon, a few people might see my blog article, but it otherwise passes by in the noise.

    I’ve been contemplating replacing my personal GitHub with self hosted (probably ForgeJo). Git is so easy to mirror, I’ll probably still mirror a few portfolio projects into GitHub.