Chris Stearns's profile answers

Love it, code all the time, build your own projects and put em online where people can see them. As much as possible...don't interview. Demonstrate your work. When you get the job, work and play well with others without losing your commitment to your vision. Be reasonable, approachable, and constructive even when you have to disagree or stand alone....

Worked for Coca-Cola stocking grocery shelves on the weekends while in high school. Great job.

Meteorology/Climatology or Marine Biology, Session Guitar Player, or Ceramics (production pottery on a wheel).

Financial peace for my wife and I, some kind of structured security for my children's education, and help my family. After that, I'd share some, invest some in helping businesses I believed in, and start my own technology consulting firm.

Challenging work in a results-oriented environment that rewards results, risk-taking, and productivity...particularly if that mainly involves working from my back porch on my Macbook.

The best thing someone just out of college can do is develop a sound work ethic and stick to it. What constitutes professionalism may change slightly depending on the particular field, but in the long run no one who has chosen an honest, results-oriented work ethic and a good attitude has ever regretted it. Skills are valuable, but skills combined with dependability, the ability to get results in any environment, and a positive approach to challenges is priceless....