Patrick, keep it up. You're doing great. We are fortunate to be in a field with lots of demand and no gatekeepers (occupational licensing, etc.)
Richard On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 6:04 PM Patrick Curl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard: Yeah, I am gaining in confidence in my coding skills and feel > that I do good on the coding tests at interviews, but after 30-60 > interviews in 4 months it can be discouraging. Thanks for the links though. > > Blair: Sure, I have plenty of free time. Would definitely like to work > with seasoned devs. My stengths are laravel, twitter bootstrap, api's > (created one or two restful ones, but connected to a bunch), self-learning > (IRC, Google, Stackexchange), and javascript (Learning Angular, pretty > decent w/ Jquery, wanting to learn React, also know MeteorJS), etc. > > Weaknesses probably are in testing, I haven't done a whole lot of testing > using test frameworks. A little mintest w/ Rails and some rspec, no Jasmine > for JS and not a lot of phpunit or selenium or anything like that... I'm > old school and still do a lot of browser testing. I'm also very comfortable > with git, and use it for some cool deployments, but could probably use some > "best practice" guidance or see how teams work together in projects. > > > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Blair Williams <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hear hear Richard! This is so true. The market will typically bear out >> more money for your services than that. Taking some small gigs at a smaller >> amount can sometimes bolster confidence ... but you definitely don't want >> to do that forever. >> >> If you have any free time soon I'd love to hear from you. We have work >> coming out of our ears and we have several more seasoned devs who could >> help mentor you. >> >> Let me know, Thanks, Blair >> >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Richard K Miller < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey Patrick, >>> >>> I'm glad you're out of the short-term predicament. If you were able to do >>> some work with Cesar Felipe then I'm sure he got a great deal, which >>> seems >>> fair since he was willing to act so quickly to offer an interview. >>> >>> I just wanted to offer some career advice. Long-term, you should never >>> have >>> to work for $12/hour again. You have valuable skills as a web developer, >>> and many companies are hiring, so there should be many opportunities for >>> you. >>> >>> I noticed on your LinkedIn profile that you are self-taught. You're in >>> good >>> company. One stat I heard is that as many as 50% of developers do not >>> have >>> a programming-related degree. >>> >>> One of the temptations you'll face as a self-taught developer is imposter >>> syndrome. This is the temptation that you're not *really* a developer >>> because you didn't go to school for it or because you don't seem to be as >>> good a developer as everyone around you. It's easy to be hard on yourself >>> when you compare the real you to the appearance of others. Fight that >>> temptation. You already have everything you need to pursue as much >>> knowledge as have appetite and time for, and you can become as good a >>> developer as you want to be. >>> >>> Here is a podcast on how to find a job and get hired as a junior dev: >>> https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/180-jsj-finding-a-job >>> >>> Also, read Patrick McKenzie's blog and Twitter feed. Here are some >>> examples: >>> >>> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ >>> >>> https://twitter.com/patio11/status/693613189779447808 (scroll down and >>> read >>> the stream of tweets; some apply to hirers and some apply to candidates) >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:22 PM Patrick Curl <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Richard, >>> > I'm still looking for something substantial, or side projects. I'm >>> working >>> > pt for a web firm doing some small projects but so far haven't been >>> given >>> > many projects so I'm still pretty open to opportunities. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Patrick >>> > >>> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Richard K Miller < >>> > [email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Patrick, did you find work to get through the short-term squeeze? >>> >> >>> >> Richard >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:40 PM Cesar Felipe <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> Hi Patrick, >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm willing to hire you. >>> >>> >>> >>> Can you come for an interview tomorrow? >>> >>> >>> >>> Please call me at 801 854 2228 >>> >>> >>> >>> - Felipe >>> >>> >>> >>> 2016-02-17 16:45 GMT-07:00 Patrick Curl <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>> >>> > Anyone know anyone willing to hire apprentice or junior level php >>> >>> > developers (I can develop full apps in Laravel with Twitter >>> Bootstrap, >>> >>> > etc..) -- I just lack unit testing experience and team experience >>> >>> -though I >>> >>> > have done Agile Sprints on a number of freelance projects. >>> >>> > >>> >>> > I'm getting a bit desperate, willing to go as low as $12 an hour as >>> >>> we're >>> >>> > in danger of losing our home if I don't find some form of income >>> in the >>> >>> > next week. Appreciate the help! >>> >>> > >>> >>> > Please feel free to pass my resume around. I'm also pretty >>> comfortable >>> >>> with >>> >>> > Ruby on Rails and MeteorJS. >>> >>> > >>> >>> > Regards, >>> >>> > Patrick Curl >>> >>> > >>> >>> > >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> >>> > >>> >>> > UPHPU mailing list >>> >>> > [email protected] >>> >>> > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >>> >>> > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> >>> UPHPU mailing list >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >>> >>> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >>> >>> >>> >> >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> UPHPU mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >>> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
