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I have no idea how to get you a job or help you found a company unless you live in Australia and know a lot about either software development or niche areas of

by strken 6y ago

I have no idea how to get you a job or help you found a company unless you live in Australia and know a lot about either software development or niche areas of healthcare, but what's your skillset, what have you tried so far, and what do you want to do? I remember reading your comments pretty frequently, but the ones I see are about being an abuse survivor or a woman[0] rather than tech or any other industry, and a quick look at your HN bio, twitter, and blog doesn't show a portfolio or a company. [0] which are fine things to talk about, I just have no idea what you want to do for a living

DoreenMichele 6y ago
My HN bio lists Eclogiselle.com, which isn't really a company but I would like it to be one. I have a Certificate in GIS from a very respected program and I wanted to be an urban planner before life got in the way. I had a college class in Homelessness and Public Policy years ago as part of an incomplete BS in Environmental Resource Management with a concentration in Housing that was intended to be the basis for eventually getting a Masters in Urban Planning. (Most planning degree programs are masters programs. There are relatively few bachelors in planning.) So housing issues were a main focus and I've probably gotten the most traction or respect on HN for writing about homelessness. The two are very much interrelated. Housing policy is a large factor in homelessness in the US. I also worked at Aflac for a bit over five years which exposed me to the award-winning design work of their wholly owned subsidiary Communicorp. I went through YC's free online Startup School last fall and I'm doing what I can to try to figure out how to develop community development resources for underserved small communities and also find some means to turn that into a real business. Community development work is somewhat outside the scope of what is typically handled by YC companies and much of it is done by either government entities or non profits. For profit companies in urban planning or economic development spheres tend towards being consulting companies that do contracts for government entities. I did some volunteer work locally for a couple of years for a couple of non profit organizations that operate in that realm and quit last May, which is a long story that I don't know how to sum up. I started Eclogiselle a bit after quitting and likely wouldn't have done so if I had been taken more seriously locally. I'm okay at this point with how all that has gone so far. Maybe I'm "dead" in the eyes of locals and maybe I'm not. I don't know. I have reason to believe some local movers and shakers have followed my writing and that has changed the discussion of local issues but I haven't succeeded in turning that into significant paid work for me. Related projects: ProjectSRO.blogspot.com ButterflyEconomy.blogspot.com At the moment, I'm pretty pleased with Project: SRO though it's small and I don't know how to get traction with it.
- FabiansMustDie 6y ago
  > At the moment, I'm pretty pleased with Project: SRO though it's small and I don't know how to get traction with it. Peddle the idea. If you have the political chops: city planning meetings. There are usually developers going to these meetings. If you can find a way to monetize these buildings (e.g perhaps establish a homeless-to-work program with the city, that provides subsistence jobs to homeless people, that they can then turn around and be funneled into these SRO properties, and make these commercial real estate developers bank), then you can talk your way into being a consultant. There's a more humanitarian way to phrase this (and assuredly, a more humanitarian way to organize and build this type of venture), but I frankly do not have the emotional bandwidth.

by strken 6y ago

DoreenMichele 6y ago

My HN bio lists Eclogiselle.com, which isn't really a company but I would like it to be one. I have a Certificate in GIS from a very respected program and I wanted to be an urban planner before life got in the way. I had a college class in Homelessness and Public Policy years ago as part of an incomplete BS in Environmental Resource Management with a concentration in Housing that was intended to be the basis for eventually getting a Masters in Urban Planning. (Most planning degree programs are masters programs. There are relatively few bachelors in planning.) So housing issues were a main focus and I've probably gotten the most traction or respect on HN for writing about homelessness. The two are very much interrelated. Housing policy is a large factor in homelessness in the US. I also worked at Aflac for a bit over five years which exposed me to the award-winning design work of their wholly owned subsidiary Communicorp. I went through YC's free online Startup School last fall and I'm doing what I can to try to figure out how to develop community development resources for underserved small communities and also find some means to turn that into a real business. Community development work is somewhat outside the scope of what is typically handled by YC companies and much of it is done by either government entities or non profits. For profit companies in urban planning or economic development spheres tend towards being consulting companies that do contracts for government entities. I did some volunteer work locally for a couple of years for a couple of non profit organizations that operate in that realm and quit last May, which is a long story that I don't know how to sum up. I started Eclogiselle a bit after quitting and likely wouldn't have done so if I had been taken more seriously locally. I'm okay at this point with how all that has gone so far. Maybe I'm "dead" in the eyes of locals and maybe I'm not. I don't know. I have reason to believe some local movers and shakers have followed my writing and that has changed the discussion of local issues but I haven't succeeded in turning that into significant paid work for me. Related projects: ProjectSRO.blogspot.com ButterflyEconomy.blogspot.com At the moment, I'm pretty pleased with Project: SRO though it's small and I don't know how to get traction with it.

FabiansMustDie 6y ago
> At the moment, I'm pretty pleased with Project: SRO though it's small and I don't know how to get traction with it. Peddle the idea. If you have the political chops: city planning meetings. There are usually developers going to these meetings. If you can find a way to monetize these buildings (e.g perhaps establish a homeless-to-work program with the city, that provides subsistence jobs to homeless people, that they can then turn around and be funneled into these SRO properties, and make these commercial real estate developers bank), then you can talk your way into being a consultant. There's a more humanitarian way to phrase this (and assuredly, a more humanitarian way to organize and build this type of venture), but I frankly do not have the emotional bandwidth.