Hi everyone,

I'm a 2026 BSc Computer Science graduate, and honestly, I'm feeling a bit confused about my career right now.

My original goal was always to become a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer.

During my college time, I spent most of my time learning web development instead of just focusing on theory.

Over the last 2 years, I learned the MERN stack, built multiple projects, and tried to understand everything instead of just copying tutorials.

Some of the things I've done:

Built multiple full-stack projects.
Learned Git & GitHub.
Learned deployment instead of stopping at localhost.
Learned Linux basics while deploying applications.
Deployed my Final Year Food Delivery Application on a VPS/Virtual Machine by myself.
Configured Nginx, PM2, environment variables, reverse proxy, domains, SSL, etc.
Faced countless deployment issues and solved them one by one.
Wrote about that entire deployment journey on my portfolio because I learned a lot from it.

Basically, I tried to learn what happens after writing code, not just how to build an application locally.

Despite all this, I wasn't able to get a Software Developer internship because the fresher market has been extremely competitive.

Instead of sitting at home waiting, I accepted a 3-month SEO internship.

Right now, I've completed more than 2 months, and only 20–22 days are left before it ends.

Initially, I took this internship only because I wanted some real industry experience.

But once I joined, I decided that if I'm going to do SEO, I'll actually learn it properly.

So instead of only doing office work, I started experimenting on my own developer portfolio website.

Since May, I've been writing blogs targeting low-competition keywords to understand how Google Search actually works.

During these two months, I learned things like:

These are my current Google Search Console results after publishing those blogs.

last 3 months

I know these aren't huge numbers.

But for me, they mean that I actually understood the basics and managed to get Google to index my content and bring some organic traffic.

Now I'm confused.

I still enjoy software development.

I enjoy building products.

I enjoy solving backend problems.

I enjoy deployment.

I even enjoy debugging production issues.

SEO was never my planned career.

It was simply an opportunity I accepted because I couldn't get a developer role as a fresher.

So I genuinely want to ask experienced developers here...

Am I actually lacking skills for software development?

Sometimes I wonder whether I'm still not good enough, or if this is simply how difficult the current market is for freshers.

Should I:

I'm not chasing the highest salary right now.

I just don't want to make a decision that I'll regret 2–3 years from now.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback.

If you've been in a similar situation—or if you're involved in hiring freshers—I'd love to hear what you think.

Thanks for reading.

PS

If you think I'm missing important skills that companies expect from freshers, please be brutally honest.

I'd rather hear uncomfortable truths now than realize them a year later.

u/Abid_840