spearingthehead

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   by spearingthehead 4y ago

   Yeah, I'm rather cash strapped at the moment and up-front payments would my main barrier to bootcamp or online tech college. If they offered better financing plans or some "pay back after employment" arrangement, I might cons
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   by spearingthehead 4y ago

   I've taken some breaks as well. Since COVID I have personally recorded at least 1,000 job applications, 800 in the last year alone, with ~30 interviews. Got burned out last fall, and trying to get back into a rhythm of 5 per day. But I
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   by spearingthehead 4y ago

   Haven't worked much with Laravel, but I know it's been around for many years now. I have MVC experience so it should not be so hard to get the basics. Laravel was something I had a very small brush with in a 2018 job. Was really b
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   by spearingthehead 4y ago

   >Try looking around Craigslist too for local companies hiring developers. Here's the funny thing- My best career years were at jobs I found on Craigslist. They still paid pretty low next to decent traditional job sectors (banking, l
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   by spearingthehead 4y ago

   So I guess making a return to PHP web shops but just "doing your job better" and take advantage of FTE opportunities for promotions, etc. Correct? The job in that link is a junior job. I'm pretty open to reverting to a junior
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   Ask HN: Best alternative jobs for “outdated” skills with small websites/apps?

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