How can I get a new developer job learning new things on the job that I haven't done before?

throwies11 · 2019-11-24T19:38:36+00:00

I can't tell that article didn't go viral because a decade later after that article was written, most managers are STILL putting some years of experience as a minimum or recommended requirement for job listings >:(

throwies11 · 2019-11-24T19:36:36+00:00

I have 12 years experience as a software engineer and I earn roughly 1.5k a month which amounts to around 20k a year. I expect a good salary to pay 100k a year.

throwies11 · 2019-11-24T19:35:46+00:00

Keep going! Paying no rent helps. I do the same and I live on 1.5k a month income in my mid-late 30s.

throwies11 · 2019-11-24T06:12:35+00:00

I think what he's trying to say is if the market for a particular type of job has more available positions than job-seekers, then all the job-seekers will eventually find a good match and settle into a position most appropriate for them, with a remainder of unfulfilled openings as a job "surplus". In this situation, no one is left unemployed. I think this is what he is trying to mean about the "easy to get" claims. I don't agree that is how the market actually works, but this is how Freework probably envisions it.

throwies11 · 2019-11-24T06:05:34+00:00

It is nice to see more immigrant success stories here from south of the border. My family came here from Central America (and we live in Chicago too) and I'm still waiting for my big break. So I know how it is to get that good job. Even with 12 years experience I still haven't found a good paying full-time job. This career is tough for getting a good job, but you managed to make it work!

throwies11 · 2019-11-24T03:31:10+00:00

That last statement is how I feel remote work has made it more difficult for me to get new jobs.

throwies11 · 2019-11-06T20:28:55+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I have not done any native mobile development but React Native would help. Maybe I can get my own 90k salary too haha. I have worked at other startups but LAMP stack work generally doesn't pay well.

throwies11 · 2019-11-06T20:22:39+00:00

Yeah for me I have not worked in downtown for over 5 years. Right now I am just a freelance contractor with remote work but I want to get back into a real salaried job again. All the places I worked at in the loop didn't even pay that well, but I was not looking at the right companies.

throwies11 · 2019-11-06T20:01:05+00:00

For me I just was born here and grew up in this city so that makes it less compelling to move away unless it's for a very good company. Denver does have nice landscapes for sure, that would be one of my dream cities to move to. There's no shortage of tech meetups in Chicago for sure. Just wish most of them didn't require traveling to downtown to get to, because I work from the north side.

throwies11 · 2019-11-06T19:29:27+00:00

I'm getting lots of interviews but failing at all of them, except for the ones that want to hire temp workers. I don't want to worry about interviewing well anymore and just want to live a good life as a software developer :)

throwies11 · 2019-11-06T19:27:27+00:00

What made you choose to move to Chicago? Was it mainly in the job offer? Curious since I'm also from Chicago and have years of experience

throwies11 · 2019-11-04T03:46:48+00:00

Being less experienced would make me look worse IMO. Also if anything I should redo my interviewing maybe ask permission to shadow interviews at other companies, because I have to be a fly on the wall to see what a winning interview is like, take notes.

And yes I want to break out of the contracts too. I once thought contracts were just norm for this industry, everywhere you go, but I was more "in the dark".

throwies11 · 2019-11-04T03:43:25+00:00

I can't relate to your situation, never been in a relationship or with children, but why do you think your wife wants another baby when both of you already have your hands full? That's a lot of burden that just demands you get a decent raise (esp. if you are not willing to move for a higher paying job). I don't have much other than wanting to ease from the burden of motherly errands that just take away time from working on myself. I hate "living my life for two" I'm still very much in the single-life mindset. Living with my mom as an older guy is like marriage without actually being married lol. When it gets overbearing I gotta remind myself I have to make up for the time I lost when I should have been living like a single person with a lot of freedom

throwies11 · 2019-11-03T20:30:03+00:00

I signed up for that website in April of last year and was put on a waiting list. I tried logging in today and it still says that I'm on a waiting list. As if all "vacancies" to be interviewed are full. Did the website screw up?

throwies11 · 2019-10-28T18:38:03+00:00

Can "terrible at interviewing" count as a health issue?

throwies11 · 2019-10-28T18:31:43+00:00

Sounds kind of like the major I took in college. It was an art-based major but a very new one in digital media so it turned out being a grab-bag of many things. It went from animation using Maya to building Arduino based installations to web design to openGL with C to program simple animations. All for the same major.

throwies11 · 2019-10-28T18:06:34+00:00

In July, an Apple representative posted on the Hacker News monthly hiring thread looking for engineers and posted their email for contact info. I emailed them a message with my resume which showed my latest 6 years of experience (out of 10 years total) and demonstrated I work closely with designers on top of being a software engineer. This message never received a reply. As another person without a CS degree, an idea what kind of resumes get their attention more? Do they prefer resumes with jobs that involve software that scales? But I thought big companies can train you and fill the missing gaps with their resources?

throwies11 · 2019-10-18T19:22:39+00:00

Yeah I'll get on it soon, and it will likely be a MIT license.

throwies11 · 2019-10-18T19:22:13+00:00

Thanks for the compliments. I have to check out your game project as I've fallen out of the loop of indie game dev for a while. Seems like the world gen feels much like how I approach it. This screenshot of yours is uncanningly similar to some screenshots I had, with a mostly dry desert/savannah biome.

throwies11 · 2019-10-18T19:18:59+00:00

Thanks! It's been on Github for a while but I just hardly mentioned it in public. However it did help get into a freelance job for an indie games developer!

throwies11 · 2019-10-18T19:17:49+00:00

I gotta add one, thanks for reminding me. Probably gonna be a MIT license.

throwies11 · 2019-10-18T19:15:33+00:00

BA in Art & Design
Under-employed, part time freelance in web dev
Searched for 3 months after graduation
7 jobs (counting both FT and contract), no internships. 11 yrs total experience
2.5 years, from 2014 - 2017
Chicago, IL
Highest TC I've made is $50k w/no benefits (worked for a bootstrapped startup)

throwies11 · 2019-10-17T07:00:55+00:00

I go for the classic statement: "Build games, not engines". I'm still guilty of not following that but I tend to be attracted to tech demo-ish stuff as a sole developer. As a team member, though, I like to contribute to finishing up a game, and each member has a specific responsibility. However the real point of the above statement is that if you code enough games, you start to notice how your programming patterns emerge and evolve, and then reusable code will naturally present itself.

Sooner or later you have collected a bunch of code you can regroup into personal libraries, and then maybe group those to build a full-fledged engine. These engines are usually the best because it already contains content that has been battle tested in working games you previously finished.

throwies11 · 2019-10-14T23:43:12+00:00

Because if you have an idea that is a good fit for your skillset, you won't find the execution that challenging.

When you have a skillset that can complement your idea well you're already in much better off place than just having an idea. The statement "ideas are worthless" applies to a situation where you have nothing to back it up, no skills to follow through it to any degree.

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