justinjunodev
Seeking Help (Career)
This post is extremely difficult and quite frankly embarrassing to write.
But, I’m desperately looking for a full-time remote position. I have a few years of professional experience (including remote) under my belt and have worked multiple contracts over the last year. While I’m thankful for each of these opportunities, the gaps in pay and unstable hours have really begun to take a toll on my family.
Over this last year I’ve applied for more than 100 full-time roles and have had very little traction. I’m not sure if this is actually due to my skills, luck, or possibly because I’m currently working in the over-saturated field of frontend development (one of the many reasons I’m learning Elixir).
Regardless, I could really use some help and good vibes right now. If anyone is looking for a frontend or an extremely junior elixir developer who is eager to grow, let me know. I’m not concerned about making a lot of money, just stability and the ability to continue doing the work I love. I’ll even consider paid internships.
Here is a link to my portfolio, if anyone is interested or wants to pass it along. You can view the hire page to get a better idea of my experience.
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justinjunodev
I just wanted to quickly thank all of you for your support, kind words, and the job!
I received an offer yesterday and will be moving forward with it. I owe it all to this community and one individual specifically. I’ll be sharing more details about it next week via Twitter. If you want to follow me there or find out more: not_found (@justinjunodev) / X.
P.S. @AstonJ or any other moderators, feel free to lock this thread down.
AstonJ
Just like to add something I don’t think has been mentioned yet… you are already on the biggest networking platform ever created - the internet!
Write blogs, be active on forums, create tools or other interesting or useful stuff and there’s a really good chance you will get noticed
When I first got into Ruby I started writing blog posts because I was so in love with it and I wanted everyone else to know how special it was. After writing my first few I got offered a job by a leading Rails shop! There have been quite a few offers since and I genuinely believe it’s because people employ people first and foremost - if you are already programming, then you already have the ability to program, and more specialised skills or new languages can be learnt - but finding passionate, compatible people for your team is far more challenging.
Alternatively, forge your own path - create your own business. You don’t even have to be creative, just look at what’s around you and see how you can make it better.. with nothing in this universe being perfect, you can pretty much pick anything! (Though maybe start with something ‘easy’
)
Another option is creating open source software - although the software itself is free, you’re not - and you can make a living through public speaking, endorsements etc
Good luck and keep us posted
Aduril
Hey Justin,
kudos for pitching this. It takes some guts to ask for help in a difficult situation. So thanks for posting
I guess you already browsed through the jobs within the obvious portals (actually I have no idea if anybody still uses those
)
At what stage were you usually filtered out? What are probably the reasons you did not make it through that stage. I can understand if you do want to go into details on a public message board, but if I can be of help, pm me.
Last Post!
AstonJ