Hello, so I recently graduated from university in May of 2024 and was fortunate enough to have had an internship at a small, around 10 employees, tech company for the last 2 years. Started off in the summer then went part time to finish school.
Unfortunately, the work I started doing is the same work I’m still doing even after graduating, which is internal and external documentation work.
I’ve learned a lot along the way and have had exposure to the codebase, shipping a very important new product, development planning, guidance and everything but I’ve not completed any complex work duties. The most I’ve done that I’m proud of is help a few clients with their website using CSS and HTML.
I understand this is on me for not stepping up and trying to take an initiative to do more at the company but part of me believes my superiors just don’t believe in me either. It’s been a rough 2 years going through several family tragedies which I know isn’t an excuse but maybe helps to explain my lack of motivation. The pay is minimum wage and I believe I have more to offer if I would just put in a little more effort. I’ve already made an offer but that was 6 weeks ago and I’ve heard nothing back from my manager.
The issue is arises when you take into consideration how small the company is. If I really wanted to, I could get tons of experience using the LAMP stack, angular, AWS, experience with moving software from server to server, installations and upgrade etc.
The exposure to techs that are willing to teach me all of this is invaluable. I guess if I’m being completely honest, I’m a little frightened by it all, how good everyone around me is and how much of a slacker I feel like.
My question is, should I step up and continue working on documentation while contributing more so I can add to my resume, should I just start learning this stuff on my own and apply to jobs?
No clue what to do. Any guidance would be welcomed.
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r/cscareerquestions Hello, so I recently graduated from university in May of 2024 and was fortunate enough to have had an internship at a small, around 10 employees, tech company for the last 2 years. Started off in the summer then went part time to finish school. Unfortunately, the work I started doing is the same work I’m still doing even after graduating, which is internal and external documentation work. I’ve learned a lot along the way and have had exposure to the codebase, shipping a very important new product, development planning, guidance and everything but I’ve not completed any complex work duties. The most I’ve done that I’m proud of is help a few clients with their website using CSS and HTML. I understand this is on me for not stepping up and trying to take an initiative to do more at the company but part of me believes my superiors just don’t believe in me either. It’s been a rough 2 years going through several family tragedies which I know isn’t an excuse but maybe helps to explain my lack of motivation. The pay is minimum wage and I believe I have more to offer if I would just put in a little more effort. I’ve already made an offer but that was 6 weeks ago and I’ve heard nothing back from my manager. The issue is arises when you take into consideration how small the company is. If I really wanted to, I could get tons of experience using the LAMP stack, angular, AWS, experience with moving software from server to server, installations and upgrade etc. The exposure to techs that are willing to teach me all of this is invaluable. I guess if I’m being completely honest, I’m a little frightened by it all, how good everyone around me is and how much of a slacker I feel like. My question is, should I step up and continue working on documentation while contributing more so I can add to my resume, should I just start learning this stuff on my own and apply to jobs? No clue what to do. Any guidance would be welcomed. submitted by /u/SaidPerson [link] [comments]
Hello, so I recently graduated from university in May of 2024 and was fortunate enough to have had an internship at a small, around 10 employees, tech company for the last 2 years. Started off in the summer then went part time to finish school.
Unfortunately, the work I started doing is the same work I’m still doing even after graduating, which is internal and external documentation work.
I’ve learned a lot along the way and have had exposure to the codebase, shipping a very important new product, development planning, guidance and everything but I’ve not completed any complex work duties. The most I’ve done that I’m proud of is help a few clients with their website using CSS and HTML.
I understand this is on me for not stepping up and trying to take an initiative to do more at the company but part of me believes my superiors just don’t believe in me either. It’s been a rough 2 years going through several family tragedies which I know isn’t an excuse but maybe helps to explain my lack of motivation. The pay is minimum wage and I believe I have more to offer if I would just put in a little more effort. I’ve already made an offer but that was 6 weeks ago and I’ve heard nothing back from my manager.
The issue is arises when you take into consideration how small the company is. If I really wanted to, I could get tons of experience using the LAMP stack, angular, AWS, experience with moving software from server to server, installations and upgrade etc.
The exposure to techs that are willing to teach me all of this is invaluable. I guess if I’m being completely honest, I’m a little frightened by it all, how good everyone around me is and how much of a slacker I feel like.
My question is, should I step up and continue working on documentation while contributing more so I can add to my resume, should I just start learning this stuff on my own and apply to jobs?
No clue what to do. Any guidance would be welcomed.
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