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Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

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Post by shtpavel »

What is the best way to find remote job? Actually i'm tryin' to find 20hours\week job to upgrade my Node.js(for now i'm .NET developer) skill and learn something new with real life project.. But I want to get some small salary, 5-15\hour will be okey. So where I can find such jobs?

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Post by shtpavel »

city41 wrote: post #2

It might be tough to get hired in that scenario. You might want to bootstrap this idea by first doing some of your own Node projects.

Yep, working on my own pet-projects is always sounds good and i'm doing it, but money, even small amount is always better motivation.

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Post by jburwell »

weworkremotely.com (run by the 37signals/Basecamp folks) and jobs.joelonsoftware.com (shortcut to Stackoverflow jobs) are two sources of remote job listings. I am sure there are more -- these are just two with which I happen to be familiar. I have also found that both of these sites have a fairly high quality of job listings.

Another approach to consider is seeking freelance work. You may be able to find work porting .NET applications to node.js which would allow you to leverage you current skill set to learn a new one. The challenge with this approach is that freelance rates can be pretty cut throat. Therefore, it would likely best to view these types of jobs as an opportunity to build experience/portfolio more than money making.

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Post by stevoo »

This is a very hard to question to answer you and there is no actual solution to give you.

It all comes down to how good you really are. I have been looking for the past 3 - 4 months for a remote job, but since the competition out there is huge and there are definitely better programmers than me I haven't manage to land anything yet.

Make a great CV, a personal page, work on github to show your work. This will help you dramatically since you will be displaying your work and who you are. ( I have all except github as all I do is actually on my own repos )

As for the hours you are willing to put in, then that is more like freelancing than a full time job. Perhaps try Elance for some freelancing and work on your own to learn node.

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Post by city41 »

shtpavel wrote: post #3
city41 wrote: post #2

It might be tough to get hired in that scenario. You might want to bootstrap this idea by first doing some of your own Node projects.

Yep, working on my own pet-projects is always sounds good and i'm doing it, but money, even small amount is always better motivation.

Look at it from the other side. Who would want to hire someone remotely and part time so they can learn a new stack? If someone is willing to hire both a part time and remote worker, they will want an experienced dev who can bring value right away.

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Post by shtpavel »

KB1JWQ wrote: post #5
city41 wrote: post #2

It might be tough to get hired in that scenario. You might want to bootstrap this idea by first doing some of your own Node projects.

Quite; "pay me to learn technology X" is always going to be a tough sell unless you're bringing another skillset to a problem.

I think you don't understand me right... Simply: i want to find trainee aor junior remote job.

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

What I do is "plant small seeds" on the web (like: articles, video talks), which acts as "ads" for my skills. Then I make sure I can be found online (twitter, site, forums). It's a midterm strategy but works very well (I've worked 100% remotely during the last 3 years).
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