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Had about 3 years of savings, now only 1.5 years. The stockmarket wiped out a huge part of my runway. I can live like a cockraoch, but let's see what happens. Tough times. I'm optimistic of a rebound once there is a vaccine.
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Are all your clients technical? If not, might want to consider a revamp of your site, make it more what your work will do for them (online presence) than your specific skill set (PHP, Drupal).
and remove the comment about sneaking an easter egg in to drupal core. If I were looking to hire a web developer I wouldn't want a sneaky one.
I haven't been displaced, but I am a Data scientist seeking work. I'd particularly like to jump on projects which can help deal with this virus. But I'd work take any honest work.
I have the usual DS experience Python, TF, sklearn, stats, Postgres, AWS, scala/spark pipelines, etc. Contact is in the profile.
My entire department got laid off. While some people are local, I was here on the work visa, and I was six months away from getting PR allowing free market access. Now No one is hiring, people are retracting job offers and cancelling interviews at the last minute with no definite timeline. Interviewing for bigN takes a lot of prep, and there is really no time, midst whatever little interviews I have lined up. This is…
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Government is giving the businesses free money. And the newly unemployed are going to benefit from (1) free money from unemployment insurance, and (2) nowhere to spend it in the next few weeks, which means (3) lots of money to spend.
What? Where do I get my free money? Also, unemployment is not nearly enough for most people (it barely will cover a family's utilities and cell phones).
The federal government is planning on sending thousands of dollars out to Americans directly.
That is in addition to unemployment, which in the currently proposed bill also provides for paid sick leave
What more do you want?
I've been a data entry clerk for the past twenty years, working for a major bookmaker in Northern Ireland. With the coronavirus pandemic hitting recently, many businesses have decided to lay off large numbers of staff. I've just become one of the unfortunate victims of one of these layoffs today, with a mortgage to pay, a wife and two young children to support.
I've also been programming, in my own time, over the past seven years or so, in Python 3, Javascript and PHP mainly. Over that time I've developed a number of tools that were used in my former place of employ, to scrape data from websites and automate the process of data entry. I've also built some online tools in Javascript and PHP for scraping/munging data. Most recently, until the coronavirus hit and unemployment loomed, I was working on a Mario/NES style level editor in HTML5 and a random tile generator for building platformer levels, while I learned C++ and wrote a platforming engine to develop a platform game for release on Steam.
I've placed a number of these tool in public repos on github. You can check them out at:
I've also got a resume ready to go for anyone that's interested. What I'm looking for is any remote programming job that fits my skillset and will enable me to keep a roof over my family's head and food in the cupboard for the next few months.
I apologise for posting something like this here. I've been reading hacker news for years now. It's my favourite website. But, along with many other people right now, I'm in a pretty bad place and I've got several little people relying on me to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Be assured that any job offer right now would be gratefully accepted.
Cheers,
Miktor
Hopefully after this settles down a bit there will be a boom in remote work positions as so many companies will now be both setup for it and seen that it is effective.
I'm curious if this is why we'll actually learn. Reading r/sysadmin this morning was fun, a lot of stories about companies realizing that people who have been "remote working" a few days a week for years don't know how to sign into the vpn.