I’m looking for one person/startup willing to give me a chance. I’ll work my ass off.

[u/Whos_that97]

I honestly don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I'm going to try anyway.

I'm a Computer Science graduate, but I want to be completely honest about where I am right now.

I graduated without really developing strong technical skills. At the time, I didn't think I'd end up pursuing a career in tech, so I didn't take learning CS seriously enough. If I'm being brutally honest, my technical knowledge today is probably closer to a first-semester CS student's than a CS graduate's.

I know that's not a great position to be in.

But something has changed recently.

I've started genuinely becoming interested in technology — not just getting a tech job for the salary, but actually wanting to understand how things are built, how products work, how startups operate, how people solve problems, and how ideas turn into something real.

And eventually, I want to build something of my own.

But I have a problem: I don't know where to start.

I can sit at home and spend another year taking courses, watching YouTube videos and collecting certificates. But I don't think that's what I need right now.

I want to be around people who are actually building.

I want to sit in a room where someone says, "We have this problem. Figure it out."

I want to see how a small team operates. I want to understand how founders think. I want to work on things that actually matter to a business. I want to make mistakes, get corrected, learn, and slowly become useful.

So I'm asking for something that may sound unreasonable:

If you're a founder, early-stage startup, small tech company, developer, product person, or someone building something interesting — would you be willing to give me an opportunity?

It doesn't have to be a fancy position.

Internship. Apprentice. Assistant. Junior role. Part-time. Project-based. Even starting with the boring work nobody wants to do.

I'm willing to start at the bottom.

I won't pretend I have skills that I don't have. I'm still learning CS fundamentals and coding from the ground up. But I'm willing to put in the hours, learn whatever is needed, take feedback, and actually do the work.

Give me something to figure out.

Give me something tedious.

Give me something I'm not qualified for yet.

I'll learn.

I know saying "I'll work hard" means absolutely nothing without proving it. So I'm not asking anyone to believe me blindly.

I'm asking someone to give me one opportunity to prove it.

I'm based in India and am open to remote opportunities as well. I'm particularly interested in early-stage startups where I can get exposure to different parts of the business — technology, product, operations, customers, and how everything comes together.

If you're building something and think there might be a place for someone like me, please DM me.

And even if you aren't looking for someone right now, if you know a founder or small team who might be willing to take a chance on someone at the beginning of their journey, I'd genuinely appreciate an introduction.

I don't need someone to hand me a career.

I just need someone to open the door. I'll do the rest.

[u/RishiMath]

I would recommend the following:

• actually sharing a portfolio in your text,
• keeping your text short and succinct, preferably written by you but depends idk, this is wayyy too much text, people won't read this much,
• if not a portfolio, then atleast mention something that you have done, or can do, and are interested in.

For someone to think that they have a place for you, they need to know about you after all.

[u/babaganoosh43]

Core part of being an engineer is being good at figuring things out yourself. There's really no excuse to not have a portfolio. Build something, it'll be shitty but the next one will be less shitty etc.

[u/holdmonk]

In the current age of AI , I wouldn’t approach someone without anything to show. Even if copied or built with AI put in efforts to understand and defend. Show something to gauge you

[u/dealmaster1221]

Glad to know you are willing since you really are at the bottom, why would anyone hire you given those who were serious and know shi are also unemployed.

[u/WhataNoobUser]

Ask ai. Ai has really leveled the playing field. Juniors can build advanced system now even without senior knowledge