So I had an interview. Went well. But apparently while they liked me I didn't show passion for development.

Any tips on how to that? Cause like... I like it and all but who really can show passion for working for someone else.

Tips please. Or job opportunities!!!

Personal projects, even if rough and incomplete it shows you enjoy exploring new stuff and coding in your own time.

@g-m-f always works for me!

Yeah but its like that didn't even come up. They kept asking questions about me and I answered.
They didn't say oh hey we specifically mean about this thing

I usually carry at least 3 laptops up my asshole so i can code anywhere, i guess that counts as passion?

@BindView Laptops? You normie. To impress you must have at least four full towers as well as your minimum three 144hz coding edition monitors

Probably it's now what you say but the way how you say it.

...y'all are so helpful. Honestly

@al-m it could be different reasons. maybe you didn't sound too excited about the job or you didn't ask questions about the workplace and job or seemed not very interested.

But it could also be that they just waited for a dev who does more than just the dev job stuff, like learn new technologies and does developing in his spare time.

Maybe they interviewed a dev before you and were prefering him/her over you...

Only the people at the interview can tell...

First ask yourself if you ARE excited about code and stuff. Then analyze the job opportunity and try hard to find something that resonates with your soul. It should at least cause something like, "Well, that sounds real interesting I wonder how..."

If you don't work at something originating from your own mind, you have to look at it and try to make it your own. Add your own dream to it. If the company doesn't support that, they don't make any sense if you ask me.

If you can't find something, don't do the job if you can efford it.

@Avimelekh Your insulting post is not constructive.

You don't give an answer on how to achieve that state of mind... :/

@Avimelekh nice. Thanks for the insults. That's what I came here for. My hero

@PonySlaystation ahh. That makes sense! They asked if I had questions but before the interview they provided me with a lot information already which I went through thoroughly so I thought it be best I'd say I've read everything you provided and as of now have no questions.

@justwellbrock good call!!! I'm excited about building stuff and executing ideas I have but never really considered if I like the process. I shall take the time to reflect.

Thanks man

@Avimelekh

You who knows nothing about me, what I do. Not even name. Yet feels the need to insult someone on a site you just joined. Yeah. I'm the attention *space* whore.

Ps. If you're gonna drag someone and feel superior at least use spelling and grammar checks

@al-m It's up to you to feel insulted ! You could just focus the advice I gave. Start a business, create awesome software that solves problems for people around You , educate Yourself , feel more passionate about the work You do . Sure its easier to be insulted than actually look for solutions to problems, but its ignorant to expect positive results while all You can see is negativity.
I dont need your name, education or job title to understand the thoughts and values the original post represents.

PS: Yes, I'm not native speaker of english, but again - my message and values are clear even without perfect grammar. Sure i will try to improve my grammar nevertheless.

Devrant needs a block feature...

Personal projects, showing interest about new/trendy frameworks with some specific stuff you'd like to achieve with them... Always embrace difficulty and unknown things. Be curious of what you don't know.. The basics!

@al-m no need to block if we can down-vote and more importantly talk and discuss things out!

@octogato ignoring is also not a solution. We need to talk to make the world slightly better :)

@Avimelekh I understand how you feel and what you want to transmit. I think it's just a hard problem if you don't already are in that state of mind to achieve what you say. Therefor some tipps on how to climb that mountain are most likely helpful. It's too easy and slightly arrogant to say "if you are not awesome, you should just start beeing awesome". In some context that makes complete sense, but the underlaying knowledge/feelings/personal development evolved in that statement is highly complex I'd say.

@justwellbrock Perhaps so, for myself - skydiving changed my life. I've done various extreme sports since early teen years. Parkour, downhill biking, snowboarding. It was matter of time that something had to happen, on my second jump , my parachute had a malfunction (nothing serious, just nasty case of line twists) it was first tour of the morning, instuctors got wind speed and direction wrong, that actually was bad - cause all i could see was endless forest and airfield fading from my vision cause strong wind that carried me. For expert it would had not been a big problem on second jump it kinda was, i landed safe several miles away from landing zone. But in those seconds i understood , i can die if I dont act. From that point on, remembering that in one day I will die and be a handful of ashes - It has been my goal to leave a mark. And that is also why i dont have much respect to people who complain to others. Its Your life, live it.

@justwellbrock PS: I didn't quit the sport , i changed the club and did AFF course instead of static line after that. I will not obtain licence but I do a solo jump or a two in summer just to remind myself that fear of death is the biggest fear and that I'm able to overcome it. I also think that giving advice to our developer here - Jump out of airplane and if all goes right you have epic experience if not and You survive you have life changing experience is not going to help either.

@Avimelekh ++'d for the shared experience. I'm impressed and I really like that idea of such an experience - though I'd not jump out of a plane right now, but I considered it myself 😅

I cannot agree on the respect part. Even though we disagree we should still (at least try as hard as we can) respect each other. If there is no respect for people with fewer experiences it is too easy to turn around instead of teaching/advising. In fact you complain about others complaining, hence the not-constructive flag 😄 I don't want to offend you, it's just what little I interpret from your text 😊

@justwellbrock none taken. For me respect is earned - I dont expect people to respect me just beacuse I exist. However I do enjoy a good argument, we dont have to agree upon things, its enough that we understand why either of us has different opinion.