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During the pandemic a ton of people saw an opportunity to move in a low COL area and get a remote dev job. The market is flooded with people with no degrees / b
by IMTDb 3y ago
During the pandemic a ton of people saw an opportunity to move in a low COL area and get a remote dev job. The market is flooded with people with no degrees / bootcamp willing to work remotely. This was kinda working while companies had no other choice than to hire remotely due to the sanitary situation.
Now that we are back to normal; many companies are going to hire in-site. The one that aren't have an immense pool to choose from. And you having no degrees and being out of work for a long time means you are at the bottom of that pile. Unfortunately, this is the consequence of your decision to favour your short term comfort over your long term employment (I know I am going to get downvoted to oblivion for this).
At this point, you need to act as if you were new to the market and target junior positions. Since you cannot afford high COL, maybe aim for mid/low COL cities, and get ready to relocate there - possibly getting a loan to afford the move. If you can; try getting some form degree, online certification, etc. Everything a new dev would be doing; but use your experience to speedup the process and get good grades.
Good luck !
- BasedAnon 3y agoAbsolutely do not get a loan, especially in this economy. You can very easily end up condemning yourself to years of what is effectively slavery. You would be better off just accepting your situation and finding freelance work through connections, flipping stuff on ebay, doing gig work etc. When I was out of career-work I managed to get some minimum-wage programming jobs by targetting crypto groups and I ended up starting an ebay side-business that still brings in about 300 USD/m for not much work. My CoL is very low so that pays for everything except food for me, that's one of the advantages of moving to a low CoL area.
- jacknews 3y ago"finding freelance work" Any tips? The freelance sites just don't work currently, even the crappiest and shadiest 'jobs' are mobbed by 50+ proposals, and anyone new to the platform won't even have their proposals read.
- BasedAnon 3y agoDon't go through freelance sites, use Discord and Telegram 'market' communities. I also managed to get some success advertising my CAD skills on moneromarket.io (not affliated)