\n\nLooking back at this now, what's interesting is that it's not brilliant. At all. In fact it's embarrasingly short - I clearly didn't spend as long on it as I should have. However, it does demonstrate the points I'm making. The first sentence just gets straight to the point, saying who I am and what I'm all about. There's a link there to all my open source code so anybody can go and look through that. It explains why I'm applying now, to this company, and why I'm excited at the opportunity.\n\n\u003Ch2>Completing the cycle of awesome\u003C/h2>\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/iEp0c.png\" alt=\"The cycle of awesome\" />\n\nThat's it! In \u003Ca href=\"/2015/09/how-to-be-awesome/\">part 1\u003C/a> of this blog post, I talked about breaking into the \"cycle of awesome\" by building awesome stuff. If you build awesome stuff, it's a lot easier to tell people how awesome you are. You're much more likely to be passionate and excited about stuff you've built yourself, so it's actually easier to write your story - it's much easier to write about things which you care about.\n\nNow you can complete the cycle, and find your way to an awesome job. It's not the easy way - there is no easy way to be awesome - but it \u003Cem>is\u003C/em> possible, and you \u003Cem>can\u003C/em> do it.\n\nTo find an awesome job, whether it's in \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-c%23?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C#\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-javascript?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Javascript\u003C/a> or any other language, check out \u003Ca href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stack Overflow Jobs\u003C/a>.","html","2015-11-24T12:00:00.000Z",{"current":392},"how-to-be-awesome-part-2",[394],{"_createdAt":395,"_id":396,"_rev":397,"_type":398,"_updatedAt":395,"slug":399,"title":401},"2023-05-23T16:43:21Z","wp-tagcat-engineering","9HpbCsT2tq0xwozQfkc4ih","blogTag",{"current":400},"engineering","Engineering","How to Be Awesome (Part 2)",[404,410,415,420],{"_id":405,"publishedAt":406,"slug":407,"sponsored":12,"title":409},"1d082483-6dc6-424b-8b09-9c84b54779da","2025-09-02T17:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":408},"back-to-school-developers-at-stack-overflow-have-some-advice-for-you","Back to school? Developers at Stack Overflow have some advice for you",{"_id":411,"publishedAt":406,"slug":412,"sponsored":12,"title":414},"5cd91820-9515-4be5-87ae-e919fd443c18",{"_type":10,"current":413},"getting-started-on-stack-overflow-a-step-by-step-guide-for-students","Getting started on Stack Overflow: a step-by-step guide for students",{"_id":416,"publishedAt":406,"slug":417,"sponsored":12,"title":419},"614538a9-c352-4024-adf1-fa44a9f911b6",{"_type":10,"current":418},"stack-overflow-is-helping-you-learn-to-code-with-new-resources","Stack Overflow is helping you learn to code with new resources",{"_id":421,"publishedAt":406,"slug":422,"sponsored":12,"title":424},"763b1d36-83d8-4178-9c2d-32d705ea1d7b",{"_type":10,"current":423},"introducing-your-newest-study-buddy-stackoverflow-ai","Introducing your newest study buddy: stackoverflow.ai",{"count":426,"lastTimestamp":427},1,"2023-05-25T09:45:54Z",["Reactive",429],{"$sarticleModal":430},false,["Set"],["ShallowReactive",433],{"sanity-ckxbkX9zxKUNX9hxYrHhGJD9nv6Q3VTmk0o5v3X1oiY":-1,"sanity-comment-wp-post-5185-1757096150534":-1},"/2015/11/24/how-to-be-awesome-part-2"]