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I'm probably going to get downvoted for this. Looking at this site, I don't see much about this person. No resume, no examples of work, the contact form is bro
by randrews 17y ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this.
Looking at this site, I don't see much about this person. No resume, no examples of work, the contact form is broken. How do I know if I want to hire him? Even if I did know, how would I do it?
I, too, was laid off around April. For a couple days I just slept, then I spent every day coding. I added features to my hobby site ( http://yellownote.info http://yellownote.info ), I wrote a Rails plugin, taught myself Git, gave a presentation at a Rails user group. I got a job (at the company that hosted the user group) about a month later.
Even if it didn't help me find a job, doing all that made me a lot happier than just sitting around.
Why not write something handy and neat, and then say "I've been unemployed since April, if you found this useful, give me a couple bucks or look at my resume"?
- 3pt14159 17y agoI kept looking for the "I am a web designer" or "I am a programmer" or "I am a mill worker". If he wants a job he should state his industry.
- abalashov 17y agoI believe you are making the somewhat metaphysical error of applying your experiences and attendant worldview as a developer to everyone else's problems. Who said this guy is capable of "writing" anything "neat," or producing any kind of online content? He is probably not. And the fact that he is not does not mean he is not employable in some capacity, just that he doesn't fit into the 2.0-ey electronic world that our demographic inhabits.
- randrews 17y agoWell, he's obviously capable of producing online content, he made this site after all. Even if he can't produce code to show off, he can produce something. If I were going to hire someone in whatever field he's in, I'd be looking for the unemployed guy with the blog about doing it as a hobby, not the unemployed guy asking for a dollar.