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Ask HN: Deployment guides and tutorials with a lot of hand holding?
4 points by djellybeans 4y ago|1 comments
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by djellybeans 4y ago
I've freelanced and contracted for about 10 years before the 2.5 years time of no work. When I had work, it didn't do so well for me. Barely made good income, and it's so much freedom, to a fault. No safety nets. You need to
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by djellybeans 4y ago
That's an interesting perspective to me, since I'm the complete opposite with detail work. I feel like I am very much a little-picture person. Most of my career I tend to strike out billable line items, close tickets, and became v
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Ask HN: Has programming become less desirable to you as a job, more as a hobby?
3 points by djellybeans 4y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Larger but overlooked companies that have a great training culture?
10 points by djellybeans 4y ago|2 comments
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by djellybeans 4y ago
>You list the trifecta of red flags for employers: Incredibly I never went out of my way to do everything as wrong as possible. It just kind of happened without thinking about what is really bad, for the first couple years of my career.
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by djellybeans 4y ago
>the major difference between the world OP and yourself describes and my experience is mostly in that it seems you two are trying to get "a job" (any job) whereas I'm saying, I find companies that I think I would enjoy I&#
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by djellybeans 4y ago
Looks like I'll message you shortly.
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by djellybeans 4y ago
My age is 39 and doing on-and-off work since 2008. Single and no kids so I have no other commitments to make. If you added all the time that I was actually hired as a developer I think it is roughly 9 years. There's really no social or
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by djellybeans 4y ago
BA, Art degree in 2007 I apply only to software engineer jobs. Full-stack, front end, or back end, I'm shooting my shot at all three. 95% of those are for mid-level and lower. Other 5% are for senior level. I get zero interviews for se
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by djellybeans 4y ago
I answered some questions in a different comment, but I'll also answer these questions directly. I used Craigslist to find all my jobs from 2008-14. This probably contributed a lot to haphazard career management. Typically those CL job
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by djellybeans 4y ago
A lot of questions are being asked already, many of them similar, so I'll try my best to answer most of them, starting with the basics. - 4 year Bachelor's degree in Fine arts (digital media concentration)* - Male, age 39 - from 2
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by djellybeans 4y ago
I suppose he's believing that there's a sunk cost fallacy given it's been 10 years. But I am trying to redeem myself. My story is not quite the same as the start of those that made a great turnaround by changing careers, whic
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by djellybeans 4y ago
It's still on the low side for engineers in a MCOL area. 55k was my best year. Usually I make under 25k.
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Ask HN: Self-taught roadmap to multiple big tech offers in a few years?
26 points by djellybeans 4y ago|34 comments
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Ask HN: Extracurriculars” for experienced programmers to find better work?
3 points by djellybeans 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Is there a TeamBlind for people of smaller startups/businesses?
1 points by djellybeans 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: At what point should you stop resume-padding unemployment time?
9 points by djellybeans 5y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Why does JavaScript not have a dominant CMS/blogging platform?
2 points by djellybeans 5y ago|2 comments
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by djellybeans 5y ago
I think personality issues are kind of overstated for interviews. Just about every industry has its fair share of jerks and sociopaths that throw people under the bus. Regardless, they have jobs, and almost all of them had to pass interview
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by djellybeans 5y ago
(Additionally, QA jobs for game companies are almost never lucrative.) The core problem is that a median income lifestyle is a relatively unstable state due to unforeseen circumstances like your example. A poor person stays poor (if whateve
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by djellybeans 5y ago
I have a safety net, it's in the form of subsidized housing where I don't have to pay anything for rent as long as I don't earn an income, and utility and food are paid by one of my relatives through an allowance. Having said
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Ask HN: How do you stop selling yourself short amidst negative criticism?
1 points by djellybeans 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why can't banking practices change to prevent money-forwarding scams?
36 points by djellybeans 6y ago|29 comments
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by djellybeans 6y ago
Last year I was phone screened by a manager in a e-commerce shop from LA while I was living in Chicago. They seemed to be too fixated on my Github contributions. This was not a startup trying to accelerate- it's merely an agency that s
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by djellybeans 6y ago
It only takes the word "tax" to make many people internally scream. Crude heuristics, but hey it's human programming.
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Ask HN: How can I help spread important labor advice to career-beginners?
3 points by djellybeans 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: For managing websites, how do I transition to cloud computing?
5 points by djellybeans 6y ago|5 comments
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by djellybeans 9y ago
Regarding your last statement- while doing these things help, the lack of doing these things isn't necessarily the cause of the problem. I know that plenty of programmers have never contributed to open source, nor written a single line
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by djellybeans 9y ago
I feel like the jobs I worked at were mostly thankless and was left out of the loop about what positive financial impact my work produced. All I get is a proverbial pat on the back and "looks great", and move on to the next ticket

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