3 ms·

So i am looking for advice which i imagine could look like 'you have to take some authoritative skill tests at %s, attend networking events at %s and %s, and le

So i am looking for advice which i imagine could look like 'you have to take some authoritative skill tests at %s, attend networking events at %s and %s, and learn how to write killer cover letters as the guy in %s book says, and you'll get to $200k a year working remotely within a year or two'. I am not looking for a full time job - any one which could be better than what i get now will be in a place which is very expensive to live, and where taxes are high (in Lithuania we pay lowest tax in EU), so unless there is a magic job which pays $500K or so, i don't win anything.

codegeek 11y ago
To get to 200K a year working remotely, the primary skill you need to learn is how to sell. Forget about authoritative skill tests etc. There is no magic answer to this. It is going to take a lot more than a killer cover letter though. Networking events may work if you know how to use them effectively.
ddorian43 11y ago
Best job I interviewed was for up to $250+K/year remotely. I didn't get the job though (from stackoverflow). I will hopefully soon have your problem too on upwork. My idea is to: 1. extreme specialization. Example: I like backend, high performance, low-level, databases (rdbms & nosql). So I'll probably go into lowe-level java/c++/c database coding. And then either contract on this or get a job Example: antirez gets a nice San Francisco wage coding full-time open-source redis. 2. startup Different ideas. But if I get good at the low-level-high-performance-thing even something with that.