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Best Way To Get Job

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Best Way To Get Job

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So the job market has gotten so competitive that CS students are now considering fursuit investments as a legitimate career strategy. Someone actually landed a Google internship by networking at a furry convention, and now we're all calculating the ROI on a $20K+ fursuit versus another bootcamp certificate. The thread escalates beautifully: one person's friend went to "shits and gigs" (perfect typo energy) and walked away with Series A equity worth millions. Meanwhile, the rest of us are grinding leetcode and polishing our GitHub profiles like peasants. The cybersecurity guy chiming in at the end is the cherry on top—apparently the entire infosec industry runs on furry convention networking. Forget career fairs and LinkedIn cold messages. The real Silicon Valley pipeline is Discord servers, furry channels, and conventions where tech bros with Lamborghinis casually hand out job offers between panels. Traditional recruiting is officially obsolete.

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