Ask HN: How would -you- find and get a remote entry-level job?
To make it short, I live in a developing nation. My start-up had a very promising beginning but covid killed it and the changing business landscape means it never picks up traction again.
I have moved to a very low COL place in order to save money and have been thinking about getting a remote IT job.
- I've lived in Germany and the US so I speak both languages fluently.
- I've studied CS in the US but it was over a decade ago and have never used it in my day job (healthcare and education-related startup) so I might as well be uneducated in the field.
- Back in the middle of the year I started learning frontend using the Odin project but stopped after about a month (around intermediate Javascript chapter) since so many people in the discord mention how impossible it was for them to get an interview, let alone get a job.
- I sometimes program small android apps for fun (python, kotlin, flutter).
I'd like to get my foot in the door even if it is entry level and low paid. 500 bucks a month would be more than enough to cover my very modest needs as I still have some savings.
If you were in my position how would you go about getting a remote job in IT?
What skills / languages / frameworks would be feasible to be learned in 3-6 months and get an entry job for ? JavaScript is probably the fastest way. I don't know what your friends on discord were talking about or what their approach was for getting a job. What you need is a few really good personal projects on your GitHub, a nice resume website, and the ability to demonstrate your skills. Get on LinkedIn and connect with people. Out of curiosity, where have you moved that only requires 500 bucks a month? Hmm, it was the official Odin project discord server. I noticed very few submission in the "success stories" channel and people being very doom and gloom about the whole tech apocalypse. I moved to Southeast Asia. Foothills, small-ish city (around 100k inhabitant) but rather popular with the western crowd since it is less than an hour away from major city but very cheap and has cool weather all year around. Anyways, Javascript eh?
So between Native Android development and Frontend, you'd recommend Frontend?
Guess it's back to Odin project then.