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Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help

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Re: Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help

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Post by qiqing »

Hey, if you are interested in relocating to the SF Bay Area, contact me on the Chez JJ contact page: http://chezjj.com/contact

We've taken more than our share of residents who come to Silicon Valley without much of a plan and found free-lance gigs or full time work by staying with us. A bunch of startups also been housed in our hacker house network.

Re: Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help

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Post by benatkin »

hncomment wrote: post #14

I wish you luck, but there are warning flags in your appeal. Do you have someone to talk to about the "some reason" that your other leads/gigs/contacts have gone cold?

There are also things in the appeal that make this sound legit, in particular the part about running out of money working at startups. Sure an outsider could figure this out and make a false appeal (like is often done on reddit) but they usually aren't that clever.

Re: Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help

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Post by einhverfr »

hncomment wrote: post #14

I wish you luck, but there are warning flags in your appeal. Do you have someone to talk to about the "some reason" that your other leads/gigs/contacts have gone cold?

In my experience a couple of really good freelance gigs can be enough to cause all of these problems. The problem is there aren't enough hours in the day and so if a project starts getting behind you work at it harder, forego things like marketing yourself (because you can't commit anyway to anyone else) and pretty soon your presence is down. It's a painful lesson and I have been through it. When you combine this with a sluggish economy, what might have been a moderately painful lesson before can be quite devastating.

I do, however, agree with the recommendation to talk to other freelancers, etc because this really helps with the learning curves of this sort.

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