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Ask HN: I'm on my last dime in a country far way from home
I find myself unemployed and on my last dime in a foreign country (not US) - with no college degree, going back will make it harder to leave again or even find a job there. All I have now is 2 weeks stock of noodles and a computer. No cash, no credit card, no place to sleep next month. Selling everything I own.
Rewind a couple of months ago: I quit my soul-crushing but well paying job confident I'll find a new gig in a matter of days. Job offers poured in and I was on top of the world, then something totally unexpected happened (totally out of my control) and I can't start a new job until that's fully sorted out, which might take a couple of months.
I've been trying to freelance online but have had no success so far. I can't freelance in-land, that's too dangerous and might break employment law. What can I do to make some quick cash online? I'm a generalist web applications developer and I've done desktop applications in the past.
- 27182818284 13y agoCan you be more specific about "generalist web applications developer"
- starvinghacker 13y agoThanks, that was a bit vague. I have lots of backend and frontend experience with the LAMP stack and I work a lot with Django, Javascript, AppEngine, EC2, Python ML packages (scikit-learn, nltk) and many Apache projects (Hadoop, HBase, Mahout, Solr)
- 27182818284 13y agoHow do I get in touch with? I might have a freelance Django gig. (Django on Heroku)
- starvinghacker 13y agostarvinghacker@yahoo.com - that will be highly appreciated