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Lesson 12.22 of 7 in this module2 min read Module 12: AI Career Roadmap and Next Steps

The 6-month roadmap (week by week)

Vague roadmaps fail. Week-by-week roadmaps ship.

You do not "get fit". You go to the gym Tuesday at 7 pm. Same principle.

A pragmatic 6-month plan after this course:

MonthFocusOutput
1Finish capstone polish, deploy, README1 portfolio-ready repo
22 more small projects (Resume Builder, Travel Planner)3 repos total
3Open source: contribute to 2 RAG / LangChain reposReal GitHub activity
4First freelance gig + content series (10 posts)Paid project + audience
5Interview prep: mock interviews, system design5 mocks done
6Real interviews + offersJob or freelance income

Weekly cadence:

  • Mon-Wed: build (2 hrs/day)
  • Thu: write (1 post or PR description)
  • Fri: ship (deploy, push, share)
  • Weekend: rest + 1 long block (4 hrs) on the bigger goal of the week

Visualize it

A gantt-style 6-month timeline with milestones plotted.

Try it now

Write your own 6-month plan in a Google Doc. Calendar-block the first 4 weeks.

Hands-on lab

Create a public GitHub README at your profile with this 6-month plan visible. Update weekly.

Try it now

Why is shipping weekly better than perfecting monthly?

Common mistakes

  • Skipping the writing/sharing step (no audience = invisible)
  • Starting 4 things and finishing none
  • Treating month 5 (interview prep) as month 6 problem (too late)

Debugging tip

If you fall off pace, drop scope. Ship something smaller. Do not skip the week.

Challenge

Publish your 6-month plan on GeekHub. Tag with #ai-llms-beginners. Update weekly.

Where this shows up

  • Career switchers
  • Students prepping for placements
  • Self-taught engineers

From the field

The visible roadmap is itself a hiring asset. Recruiters love a candidate who can articulate where they are headed.

Recap

Six months, weekly cadence, shipped artifacts. That is how careers compound.

Quick recall

3 prompts · think before you flip

Prompt 1 of 3

What is the month 4 focus?

Quiz time

1 question · tap an answer to check it

  1. 1. The single best month-1 output is

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