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Ask HN: Can I junior dev/intern for a programmer position at 40?
I am an immigrant and survived doing petty jobs for many many years, learning to program while working. I have a college degree which seems to be of no use in US and I learned a lot of stuff just to get employable as a developer and I have hacked a few stuff primarily using Java, Go, Angular, React, D3, docker, elasticsearch, cassandra, MySQL etc and learned a lot more may tools and reporting software. How can I find a Junior developer job or an intern position and what minimum hourly job can I expect if any !
- im_down_w_otp 10y agoHave you considered trying to contribute to a trendy and/or heavily used open source project? Especially one backed by a vendor? If you start contributing useful bug fixes or features to Puppet, Chef, Cassandra, Spark, Mesos, Kafka, anything Hashicorp, etc. you're almost certain to be able to get a job working for the vendor(s) backing those technologies, or at the very least a company heavily reliant on those technologies, and you can probably side-step the intern/terrible-pay angle completely. Especially if the vendor's market is less mature and stable and they're currently undergoing a growth-hiring phase. Databricks, Mesosphere, Confluent, etc.
- throwaway029102 10y agoThanks a ton. This is a brilliant idea.
- im_down_w_otp 10y agoSure thing. Hope it helps. I met a woman (she comes to my Elixir meetup occasionally) who basically did this after deciding that a lifetime of being a barista wasn't what she wanted for herself, and it worked. New shapes of opportunities and career paths like that are probably my favorite thing about the open source software ecosystem.