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Education is not the issue, in my experience - career opportunities are. I work remotely and live in a rural area. To get my career to the point where I could
by LyndsySimon 8y ago
Education is not the issue, in my experience - career opportunities are.
I work remotely and live in a rural area. To get my career to the point where I could reliably find remote work, I moved to Charlottesville, VA for five years.
Meanwhile, of the 20 or so people I’ve tracked down with two-year degrees intended to train them for tech jobs, exactly zero have done so. The primary problem that I see is that no one wants to hire a remote junior developer. Senior, sure, but never junior.
- ghaff 8y agoSpeaking as someone who mostly works remotely (after multiple decades of working in an office most of the time), I have a lot of trouble envisioning coming out of school and sitting in an apartment at my computer all day. Sure, there are consulting jobs where you spend most of your days at a client site or otherwise don't work from an office much. Perhaps had I had a job like that I'd feel differently. But going straight from school to a fully remote engineering position would, I think, have been very difficult for me.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoIt would have been for me, too - without the school, though, as I didn’t graduate. That’s my point. Where does someone in a rural area get the experience to make that transition effectively?