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It seems like your skills are sturdy enough to create viable products. Have you thought about contract work or getting a job as an engineer? When I feel like bo
by tagabek 14y ago
It seems like your skills are sturdy enough to create viable products. Have you thought about contract work or getting a job as an engineer? When I feel like books/SO/etc. are not working for me, I tackle an existing idea that I have.
- wturner 14y agoI am looking for a mentor to help me learn what I need to know to compensate for a lack of a computer science degree-based understanding of programming. I still learn from Stack Overflow and books, but I am not rapidly growing from them the way a mentor can lend with less effort. I've been trying to get work for 5 years. I briefly worked for a start up started by a fortune 500 COO but my time was spend on many things that I feel were/are wasteful - like weeding through tons of confusing disorganized team emails ( I didn't get paid for that). Plus it was on spec (they need to hit $40,000 revenue before I am to get paid) and there were some other issues. My "accomplishments" while there included styling a pop up widget, brute-force dissecting a JQuery plug in, researched various problems/solutions for product promotion and doing HTML/CSS work to reflect PSD files. Anyway, it all amounts to about $100 worth of work ($12/hr plus hours of "free" research) over the course of 4 months of asking,waiting,doing and playing along. But in terms of getting a more robust foundation for what I want to do - it won't happen tangled up in "busy work" and without a mentor. Thanks for the feedback. btw - I have an idea I'm working on . I always have an idea I'm working on. That's just a given. :)