Reverse Job Search: I will pay to work at your company

I am a coding bootcamp graduate who is having a hard time finding my first dev job.

PROBLEM: Most internships want students who are in college (I'm not) and most junior positions want people with at least 2 years of experience. I'm looking for my first front-end development job.

ABOUT ME: - I changed careers from the medical field. - I'm African-American. - I live in NYC. - I graduated from a good coding bootcamp, so I know basic HTML, CSS, and JS. - I briefly helped a friend with a React / Redux app, so I know the fundamentals of React.

Because I've had a hard time finding my first job, I was thinking about going back to take more web development classes to build up my portfolio. The school I was looking into is about $10K and it lasts 7 months.

So instead of that, I wanted to see if there are any companies out there that I can pay who is willing to let me learn on the job. I know it's a rather crazy idea, but you never know, right?

JOB REQUIREMENTS: - I want to be treated like any other dev in the company (work with PMs, designers, other devs, and be assigned tasks). - I'm interested in front-end development particularly. - Since I have started learning React, I would prefer to work on a React app. - I would like to work with someone who is patient and is good at mentoring beginners. - The company should be located in NYC ideally (but open to remote if you think it can work). - The job should last full-time, 7 months at least (ideally). - Since I'm paying and the whole point is to learn on the job, I'd expect the interview process to be more lenient.

PAYMENT / "TUITION": - Up to $10K

Message below if there's an opportunity out there for me! I'm hopeful.

Why don't you use that $10,000 to start your own company. You can then give all those HR people the finger, like they deserve.

My coding skills is not at that level yet where I can be my own CTO.

Hi there. I am unfortunately based in Helsinki and so cannot offer you any opportunities - but I would like to offer some advice. You are (in my opinion) crazy to spend more money, especially to work for someone else - if you have 10K and 7 months and want to go full time.. take your laptop to a coffee shop, and build yourself an app.. start dirt simple, iterate... make yourself a website, put up sample pieces... even try to build a real MVP of some product... go to meetup.com or similar events for other IT dudes and see what they are working on. Volunteer to help. Get your hands dirty that way? Good luck!

On one hand, it's a sign of a dysfunctional job market and that's sad.

On the other hand, you dude may be taking the right approach here. Warren Buffett famously did pretty much the same - he offered to work for free for Ben Graham, his mentor cause experience and insight were much more valuable to him that money. Funnily enough, Graham turned him down initially, saying he was still too expensive :)

So good luck to you !