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Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by aayushranaut »

I am probably stuck in the same situation. I am 17 though and I live in India. I am planning on giving SAT and going to USA, land an internship from there as it would be easy for local people and maybe later apply for job to get citizenship. Maybe you can do the same.

I feel so agitated seeing the condition of education in my country(CS), universities here are as if they are mocking the subject by giving theory test which I never found useful in my life. Even more the graduates have lesser knowledge than me on the subject.

And yes I am a self taught programmer!

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by fisadev »

Honestly, you are living in a first world country, and you are able to live in almost any other first world country without much effort. You could go to germany, UK, france... and being a good developer, I'm sure you will find a nice job in any of them.

So, no, you are not "trapped" as far as I know (based on what you say).

To add a little perspective: there are people in countries at war. And people living in countries where the government doesn't allow them to leave. Haven't you seen the pull request comment everybody was talking about yesterday? (somebody answering a pull request telling he won't be able to work on it because of an ongoing revolution in his country).

I myself live in a country where I can't buy dollars without a special government permission (try to leave the country without any cash...). I can't even buy stuff on the internet without having to sign an affidavit each time, and I'm only allowed do that 2 times a year. That is much closer to be "trapped", and even here, I was able to find a really nice job where I can work on AI, python, and other nice things.

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by phantom_oracle »

Fuck moving. If the area in Italy you're living in has Mediterranean weather, that beats any job.

You can now live and exist on the Internet entirely.

Start a company (register in HK or somewhere where tax isn't a bitch), hire grads like yourself. Create a community.

You may never become a billionaire with a fad product, but I personally think that bootstrapped tech firms that grow normally are the better firms (37signals and that ilk).

Besides, if its always 27 degrees and you've got some exotic location (near a beach), other Europeans will be drawn to your company and you'll end up hiring the best from Berlin and London (both of which have shitty winters).

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by phantom_oracle »

fisadev wrote: post #72

Honestly, you are living in a first world country, and you are able to live in almost any other first world country without much effort. You could go to germany, UK, france... and being a good developer, I'm sure you will find a nice job in any of them. So, no, you are not "trapped" as far as I know (based on what you say). To add a little perspective: there are people in countries at war. And people living in countr…

What oppressive part of the world are you living in?

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by fisadev »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #74
fisadev wrote: post #72

Honestly, you are living in a first world country, and you are able to live in almost any other first world country without much effort. You could go to germany, UK, france... and being a good developer, I'm sure you will find a nice job in any of them. So, no, you are not "trapped" as far as I know (based on what you say). To add a little perspective: there are people in countries at war. And people living in countr…

What oppressive part of the world are you living in?

Argentina. Spiraling down on oppression with the current government :/ (the same family is ruling as presidents and biggest party since 10 years ago).

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by flueedo »

I read all other comments, nothing much for me to add. Except for: If you feel that you need to leave asap, to put distance between you and your home city, just so you don't feel so trapped anymore and can maybe think more clearly, then consider that there isn't such a requirement to only move after you've been hired by some great company. Go to Berlin or some other northern big city and get any job that will pay your rent while you search for a job you really want. For example a night job as a waiter while you hunt for interviews, remote programming work,freelances,etc during the day.

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by aayushranaut »

I am probably stuck in the same situation. I am 17 though and I live in India. I am planning on giving SAT and going to USA, land an internship from there as it would be easy for local people and maybe later apply for job to get citizenship. Maybe you can do the same.

I feel so agitated seeing the condition of education in my country(CS), universities here are as if they are mocking the subject by giving theory test which I never found useful in my life. Even more the graduates have lesser knowledge than me on the subject.

And yes I am a self taught programmer!

Re: Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

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Post by dismiss21x »

lylejohnson wrote: post #31
kfk wrote: post #26

As Italian myself, I lived almost 5 years ago and I have never looked back. If you want an advise, live. If you can go to US good, otherwise almost any other country would do too. But you are not trapped... You are what? 23? With a EU Visa. At this age you can take 1 year off and go to a place, any place, that you like and start from there. Finally, do you actually have a github? If you are studying 10 hrs a day to b…

He said that he was in his third and final year (of University), and (I believe) lamenting the fact that most of the interesting things he's learned during that time were learned on side projects and not in his coursework.

I lamented the same fact. Almost everything on my resume is self-taught, even though I'm almost done with my Masters.
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