My first rant/story

> 3 years ago company x decides to pay for my software dev degree

> fast forward to today.. x has no idea what I've learned as they never asked..(basically java,php,sql,android)

> x gives me a contract 1 week before my final exams and expects me to work everyday except exam days..

>next day, a dev contacts me - 'oh please brush up on your Vue, Node, angular as well as laravel php framework'

>I've never touched any of those xD fml.. what to do!?

@desirous much appreciated! A friend of mine's father runs the sales side of the company. He organised the bursary as a sort of favour although I have to pay back in work time of course

where do you live? in germany you would have good chances that this is a so called "sittenwidriger vertrag".

In germany it's normally not allowed to tie somebody a long time to a contract without the legal period of notice. Especially if this was the first time you studied or it's your first work place.

In germany you only can try to handle this as an employer with a "gentlemen agreement". This is cant be relied on in court, but it's common sense to fullfill it if it is possible (both sides, employer and employee)...

But cant promise, that this is anywhere else like that.

And i'm not a lawyer. That's just what i've been told when the company i used to work gave me a similar chance. Probably you should just inform yourself.

Be honest and work hard. Say something like "school taught me how to master programming concepts. I did not teach me those specific technologies. I will need a week per technology to get familiar with it.

@CoffeeNcode Thanks for the great advice! I happened to stumble into laracasts website and will definitely be working through their tutorials :)

@borderless I am living in South Africa and although I could probably get out of the situation legally.. I don't want to ruin the relationship with the company so just gotta try my best I guess

@notlikethis @jeeper
Good mindset advice! Thanks guys :)

@Rorix hey, I wish you the best of luck.
If you want to learn some Vue. You can check out
https://www.vuemastery.com they have a free course aswell

@sigfried Thanks for the help! The site looks like it'll help me very much.

People are very friendly here.. it's refreshing