Once, only once, my blog got me hired. It was a lifestyle blog that I kept while working a non-tech job. The editor of a local newspaper followed it actively an

Once, only once, my blog got me hired. It was a lifestyle blog that I kept while working a non-tech job. The editor of a local newspaper followed it actively and I had no idea. I got fired from my job and posted about it. The editor saw the post and reached out a few days later. I interviewed and was offered me a full-time tech job a week later. On a side note, I have a photography site that I have rebuilt many times since 1998. Each time I experimented with new design approaches and the underlying tech. Those experiments served as learning experiments I put on my resume. Multiple times I have been hired for languages or frameworks I only learned from using in my photography website.