[Update: Hired!] Startups and I don’t fit: got let go yesterday
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What are some trusted contracting sites that I could try my hand on? I’ve been meaning to go that route but always feared the uncertainty of the frequency of work (I don’t give myself enough credit people say — I downplay my actual skills a lot).
Skip contracting and recruiting companies for now, just find some companies that you can send some information about yourself and your CV. Recruitment companies often want 20% of your first year salary(not yours, but from the company who hire you). If you contact them directly and get hired you may even be lucky enough to get a slightly better salary.
Here is an overview of Python positions in Norway
Søkeresultat - Fulltidsjobb, 'python', IT utvikling, Norge, Jobb | FINN jobb
Here is an overview of Python positions in Norway
Søkeresultat - Fulltidsjobb, 'python', IT utvikling, Norge, Jobb | FINN jobb
Without getting too deep into world politics, if I were in your position, I'd move back stateside. Europe is a cesspool right now, politically, and my belief is that it's gonna get worse. How that affects the economy there remains to be seen, but it can't be good.
In general I wound say Germany is solid and very good chances of employment , some of the rest of Europe I agree.
the amount of support from the STH community is super humbling -- I really appreciate it. Honestly, the people reaching out via PMs and such could be game changing, you know who you are, and again thank you!
The website is live. The idea -- make my resume a webpage and set myself apart. Front end UI is still a crazy thing so I co-opted a free template online. It was kind of fun actually I think I will look more into it.
check it out here: http://alexandarnarayan.com
The website is live. The idea -- make my resume a webpage and set myself apart. Front end UI is still a crazy thing so I co-opted a free template online. It was kind of fun actually I think I will look more into it.
check it out here: http://alexandarnarayan.com
White font on light gray background? AWS, DB sliders all over to the right in 80-90% ?
Something is not right here.
yep -- profile photo isn't rendering. Troubleshooting a cloudflare issue that I think might be borking my stuff.
DB is my value add though I should add SQL server as a 80% and the rest scale back a bit so as be more reasonable.
First things first -- getting mobile to work.
DB is my value add though I should add SQL server as a 80% and the rest scale back a bit so as be more reasonable.
First things first -- getting mobile to work.
does this work for everyone? Alexandar S. Narayan - Backend Data Wrangler, Lover of SQL, Python, Linux and all things tech -- trying to limit the blue fade in and get it to render on mobile properly.
@gigatexal - A piece of humble advice from a guy who hires people.
Work on writing a solid resume, not this website. Hiring managers and owners like me rarely look at them, the most I'll do is look at someone's Linkedin profile. If you do want to put effort in, put it in optimizing your Linkedin profile.
Work on writing a solid resume, not this website. Hiring managers and owners like me rarely look at them, the most I'll do is look at someone's Linkedin profile. If you do want to put effort in, put it in optimizing your Linkedin profile.
Will do. Between my resume, this website, and keeping my LinkedIn up to date the LinkedIn has gotten a bit stale. I'll definitely polish it though.
@kapone - Is absolutely right. I was laid off 6 months ago after 20+ years at a fortune 500 company. After spending time with a personal branding firm, I learned that 98% of recruiters are using LinkedIn as their primary means to find candidates. Most of the calls I got were from LinkedIn recruiters which ultimately landed me a job.
I'm sorry to hear about your struggle.
I worked at a startup that fail because of leadership infighting. The business was actually very profitable. Fortunately my GF was able to cover our expenses and allowed me to find the gig I wanted instead one I needed.
We're all here for you.
I worked at a startup that fail because of leadership infighting. The business was actually very profitable. Fortunately my GF was able to cover our expenses and allowed me to find the gig I wanted instead one I needed.
We're all here for you.
That’s awesome! Yeah my wife is helping out on that front. We have support of family too. I am very lucky like that. I do wish my old team all the best. I got pretty close to some of the guys. We slugged it out for 12 to 14 hour days to meet team deadlines some weekends. So I have some great life lessons, 6 months of production experience, and life long friends I’d say I did ok. The only thing is my pride: I’m a proud person I guess — I never thought I’d ever be let go from a job in my whole life.
Sorry to hear this, @gigatexal
I had a similar experience a bit over a year ago. I took a contract in a new city, signed a lease on a new apartment and commuted 200+ miles to work each week, much to the annoyance of my wife who threatened me with a divorce after a few months of this. Despite doing an excellent job of everything I was asked (and receiving positive feedback to this effect), the contract was terminated prematurely without any explanation. Given all that I'd risked personally it was a pretty big kick in the gut to experience this ...
The upside is that the experience I gained on this project opened a lot of doors for me. Within six weeks I had multiple offers, and the one I accepted has ended up being the absolute best experience and best company I have worked for in my 23+ years of IT career. Who knows how these things end up, but I could actually see myself retiring from this company in 20 years if all goes well. - which is something I've never even considered as a possibility until now.
One door closes, another opens. Stay positive and the opportunity you are looking for will present itself.
I had a similar experience a bit over a year ago. I took a contract in a new city, signed a lease on a new apartment and commuted 200+ miles to work each week, much to the annoyance of my wife who threatened me with a divorce after a few months of this. Despite doing an excellent job of everything I was asked (and receiving positive feedback to this effect), the contract was terminated prematurely without any explanation. Given all that I'd risked personally it was a pretty big kick in the gut to experience this ...
The upside is that the experience I gained on this project opened a lot of doors for me. Within six weeks I had multiple offers, and the one I accepted has ended up being the absolute best experience and best company I have worked for in my 23+ years of IT career. Who knows how these things end up, but I could actually see myself retiring from this company in 20 years if all goes well. - which is something I've never even considered as a possibility until now.
One door closes, another opens. Stay positive and the opportunity you are looking for will present itself.
There are places on the internet that are cesspools aka reddit and then there's STH -- the single most professional and nice place that exists. You guys are rad.
Going to an SQL Server mini conference tomorrow, I'll keep an ear to the ground for anything interesting (assuming UK is OK?)
That'd be rad! the UK would be great and SQLServer is what I did for years so I've a bit of a leg up there.