Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#1

Post by gremlinsinc » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:05 PM UTC

I've been trying to get a job for the past 3 months, then I got accepted into a startup accelerator, my team promised to share the money they got with me, but backed out of that, and now I'm about to lose everything.

I've tried a crowdfunding campaign, and I'm willing to build a full MVP for $3k if anyone has an idea for an app. My stack is Laravel MVC, I can also help deploy it on linode, cloud, shared hosting, wherever.

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#2

Post by nhayden » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:51 PM UTC

If you can't find any work as a junior web dev at any salary then you're possibly doing something wrong with your resume or interview. It's impossible to give feedback on that without more info.

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#3

Post by jcfrei » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:55 PM UTC

You could remove the Certificate in Massage Therapy from your CV

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#4

Post by ThrustVectoring » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:59 PM UTC

The number one way you can improve your chances of getting a job is to send out more applications. How many have you sent in the last three months?

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#5

Post by mrinterweb » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:59 PM UTC

I realize this advice may not address your immediate needs, but if you don't have paying projects, stay busy. Github is your new resume. Try to stay active on Github when you have downtime.

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#6

Post by seanponeil » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:59 PM UTC

I wouldn't say KICKASS in the first sentence of your "About me" blurb

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#7

Post by justizin » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 9:00 PM UTC

nhayden wrote: post #2

If you can't find any work as a junior web dev at any salary then you're possibly doing something wrong with your resume or interview. It's impossible to give feedback on that without more info.

"you're possibly doing something wrong with your resume or interview"

i love this cult of personality viewpoint in favor of conformity.

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#8

Post by nsxwolf » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

Those stars on your skills section... I don't like to see ratings like that in general, but if you're going to put 5 out of 5 on something, be prepared to be called out on it. I'd expect you to have total expert knowledge of Bootstrap and Lavarel and Wordpress.

There's nothing I'd give myself a 5 out of 5 on after my 20 years of work.

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#9

Post by afarrell » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

You should probably say where you live if you are looking for a job. Also, if they said they would give you a particular portion of some pile of money as compensation, you might consider suing them for wage theft.

Also, why are you "evil"?

Re: Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

#10

Post by eieio » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

nhayden wrote: post #2

If you can't find any work as a junior web dev at any salary then you're possibly doing something wrong with your resume or interview. It's impossible to give feedback on that without more info.

From gremlinsinc's profile, it looks like his resume can be found at http://resume.patrickcurl.com. From a quick glance the writing/grammar on the page does seem to be a bit off ("I've been designing web pages, back when geocities was popular(circa 1998)."), and as another user mentions having "KICKASS" in the first sentence of your resume is a bit questionable to me.