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Not to be harsh but you've no skills and nothing to show on your resume, no-one wants that. Reach out to your old clients see if they have work available, don'

Not to be harsh but you've no skills and nothing to show on your resume, no-one wants that. Reach out to your old clients see if they have work available, don't low-ball yourself. And probably the best advice is forget everything you think you know and learn properly from scratch, start over try https://www.theodinproject.com/ https://www.theodinproject.com/

throwaway_job_t 4y ago
I highly disagree about no skills, objectively speaking. I do have some experience overall. I have some 5,000h from the mentioned saas app I did in the past and the desktop app I'm working on, including 2,000h with TypeScript and React + whatever hours I have working on WordPress plugins. There's little I could learn from the link you posted (besides Ruby of course). Plus every project I ever worked on, was something that I designed from scratch. But I totally understand that my resume kinda sucks, because I don't have any experience working a full-time job in this. With the first SaaS, it was really a full-time job at a time, but I see how it could be interpreted as a side project, depending on the recruiter. My recent experience, 2,000h on a desktop app, I cannot list that, unless I add it to the contracting item on my resume as "working on a desktop app 1 year under an NDA". I'm hoping the new side project I would build could turn it around and put more focus on the full-stack JavaScript part, but again, I'm aware it may still not be enough, that's why I'm asking.
throwaway_job_t 4y ago
Also > And probably the best advice is forget everything you think you know and learn properly from scratch, start over try https://www.theodinproject.com/ https://www.theodinproject.com/ How could that possibly be the best advice. It's a simple tutorial, in my post I mentioned that I worked 3 years on a sass app and 2 years on a desktop app, and if I did not mention it, it amounts to at least 5,000h of experience total with front-end (and some back-end, I admit my experience with Node.js back-ends is quite limited at this point) + I have some 3,000h working on WordPress plugins. One does not just forget prior knowledge and "learn properly from scratch". When I set out to fix my bad coding practices 2 years ago, which took me maybe 6 months, I was not starting from scratch but building upon previous knowledge. I also was not following any tutorial, but studying other codebases, doing some searches over HN, quick reading through some books and integrating it practically in a real project I was working on as I went through that.

throwaway_job_t 4y ago

I highly disagree about no skills, objectively speaking. I do have some experience overall. I have some 5,000h from the mentioned saas app I did in the past and the desktop app I'm working on, including 2,000h with TypeScript and React + whatever hours I have working on WordPress plugins. There's little I could learn from the link you posted (besides Ruby of course). Plus every project I ever worked on, was something that I designed from scratch. But I totally understand that my resume kinda sucks, because I don't have any experience working a full-time job in this. With the first SaaS, it was really a full-time job at a time, but I see how it could be interpreted as a side project, depending on the recruiter. My recent experience, 2,000h on a desktop app, I cannot list that, unless I add it to the contracting item on my resume as "working on a desktop app 1 year under an NDA". I'm hoping the new side project I would build could turn it around and put more focus on the full-stack JavaScript part, but again, I'm aware it may still not be enough, that's why I'm asking.

throwaway_job_t 4y ago

Also > And probably the best advice is forget everything you think you know and learn properly from scratch, start over try https://www.theodinproject.com/ https://www.theodinproject.com/ How could that possibly be the best advice. It's a simple tutorial, in my post I mentioned that I worked 3 years on a sass app and 2 years on a desktop app, and if I did not mention it, it amounts to at least 5,000h of experience total with front-end (and some back-end, I admit my experience with Node.js back-ends is quite limited at this point) + I have some 3,000h working on WordPress plugins. One does not just forget prior knowledge and "learn properly from scratch". When I set out to fix my bad coding practices 2 years ago, which took me maybe 6 months, I was not starting from scratch but building upon previous knowledge. I also was not following any tutorial, but studying other codebases, doing some searches over HN, quick reading through some books and integrating it practically in a real project I was working on as I went through that.