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Yes, use this opportunity to make contacts. But I'd recommend you add a sentence or two to let HN employers know your professional background and skills. I see
by jnbiche 9y ago
Yes, use this opportunity to make contacts. But I'd recommend you add a sentence or two to let HN employers know your professional background and skills. I see from your profile that you do Python, Django, and JavaScript, anything else? Your impressive blog discusses functional programming a lot.
Only willing to consider Atlanta, or other cities in Southeast? (Raleigh-Durham is another big regional employer of programmers, and hires lots of Python folks)
Also, I'm guessing things are only looking up in San Juan, right? The outlying areas still have no clean drinking water, food, or medicine from what I'm seeing.
- pryelluw 9y agoThanks for the feedback. Ive updated my bio and included a link to my most recent resume. I have no issues with relocating within the US (as long as its not Alaska). I live near San Juan (about 3o mins out and things sure are better than in other areas. But people are still currently in a state of shock and havent realized the implications of the catastrophe. My dad lives where the eye entered and it looks lime a set for the walking dead tv show.
- unlmtd1 9y agoWhy only the US?
- djKianoosh 9y agoIt's much easier? Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English (a lot more do than people assume) then it's relatively easy.
- verelo 9y agoAs long as they know English? That seems like an absurd requirement, surely it’s by birth?
- khedoros1 9y agoFor citizenship, yes. They're saying that not knowing English makes it harder to work in the US: - Puerto Ricans are US citizens - So as long as they know English then [working in the U.S. is] relatively easy.
- djKianoosh 9y agothanks for clarifying I think verelo must have missed the word "so"
- verelo 9y agoI don’t think I did, where would you put it? Seems by the downvotes I offended someone, I don’t really know where but keen to correct it if that is the case!
- dmd 9y agoWhat the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English ... it's relatively easy" What you think the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English"
- veidr 9y agoWhat djKianoosh means is that you missed reading the word "so", leading you to read the comment as: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English..." ...instead of: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English..."
- verelo 9y agoGotcha! That makes way more sense and addresses my original question for sure, thank you!
- verelo 9y agoright, I totally get how English would help getting a job. I thought the post implied that it was a requirement for citizenship, which seemed odd since no one would speak English at birth anyway.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoPuerto Ricans are US citizens by birth, it makes it easier to move anywhere in the USA vs another country (just buy a ticket, find a place to live, etc). That's my main guess as to why. I am from Puerto Rico and living in Florida. Chances are he has family in Atlanta (maybe). When we moved from PR to Florida we moved here mostly because we had family here already, makes starting over a little easier.
- pryelluw 9y agoIts currently simpler given that Im a natural citizen. Moving to another country carries an additional amount of work that Im not currently able to complete. Plus I have family and friends in the US.
- djKianoosh 9y agoMy wife is from PR and most of her family lives theoughout the island. It's not actually "better" in San Juan, because people are desperate for water/gas in many neighborhoods. I can only tell you that there are some pretty horrible things going on in parts of San Juan. In the mountain towns they still dont have any comms and no water or gas. In the north west the lines for gas/water are miles long. Lots of people are leaving. It will be really interesting to see how the long term effects play out, even if only 25% of the population moves to NY, Chicago, DC, Orlando, Philly, etc.
- pryelluw 9y agoWell, better is a relative term. I see things generally improving. Doesnt mean that bad things are not happening.
- bobthepanda 9y agoPR is no stranger to mass exodus (the previous waves to New York are evidence of this). In fact the pre-hurricane problems largely stem from the results of the past exoduses. Solving the problem requires repealing all the laws that yoke PR to mainland companies without providing any of the actual benefits, but that would require the current Congress to want to give PR something like statehood, if not statehood itself.
- memracom 9y agoIf they cannot justify statehood then annex it to Florida.
- drxzcl 9y agoNo republican is going to add a few million safely Democratic votes to Florida. Unfortunately that’s the kind of world we live in.
- jcadam 9y agoSolution: Divide Florida into two states (North and South). Give Puerto Rico to South Florida. Puerto Rico has much more in common (culturally) with South Florida anyway. North Florida is heavily republican, South Florida is heavily democrat. Status Quo is maintained.