Anyone know how a developer in situation 1 can get a job?
I am a game developer, and many game companies have two qualities:
1, they demand lots of time.
2, they do either very specific work related only to their game, or they do things that can be re-used, but then this mean it become very valuable internal tech and must NOT be shared with competitors.
Currently my lifestyle is: wake up, drink tea, wear something, go to work.
Arrive home, take a bath, eat something, sleep.
In saturday it is: wake up, clean house, wash clothes, do all other home chores, leave to see SO.
Sunday: return home with SO, cook a food for the whole week with her help until it is night (I have only 1 cooking pot, meaning each dish must be done sequentially, instead of parallel, also the kitchen is shit, IF I had several pots, I still would be unable to use them), eat something, send SO away, sleep.
I worry that if my current startup fail, I will spend another long time unemployed, and since I have college debts that currently cost 2 times a minimum wage here, this is something that I CANNOT afford (it is already 3 years that my bank account is either zero, or negative at the end of the month).
Sometimes I do some check, prodding here and there to see if I can find work, and I am not even invited to interviews, except by jobs with pay lower than my university debt (ie: the pay is 1.5* the minimum wage, or lower... those always want me working for them as developer, by the way, the minimum wage here is about 300 USD month).
Network. Talk to people be it in chat on a social network on the people next to you on the highway. Reach out to people on HN. Search through Linked in and send messages. Search google for dev blogs and email them. Search github for people in your field.
Make connections however you can. That way if something does happen you can reach out to them to see if they know someone or might know someone who knows someone that can help.
Sounds like you are way underpaid and not really happy with your current job. You should be looking actively for better paid jobs that allow a healthier life / more spare time, this is particularly true if you are worried about your current company failing. If you are not invited to interviews at all, there's probably something wrong with your CV/presentation, try to identify and fix that.
I am actually overpaid for our standards. This is because I am associate of the company, and thus I can get whatever I need... The thing is, what I need (mostly thanks to student debts) is still more than what most companies here would pay to a programmer.
...and the TFA's suggestion is you add another job to this equation, unpaid, to give the work away for free in hopes somebody might like what they see when asking for a portfolio.
The... dunno the name in english, where there is fire and you put pans over it, only one works (out of four).
Also the surfaces that you have to work (ie: cut your vegetables for example) are inclined, meaning that anything round (like a sausage, or a carrot, or a egg) will roll out of it if you don't pay attention...
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Anyone know how a developer in situation 1 can get a job?
I am a game developer, and many game companies have two qualities:
1, they demand lots of time.
2, they do either very specific work related only to their game, or they do things that can be re-used, but then this mean it become very valuable internal tech and must NOT be shared with competitors.
Currently my lifestyle is: wake up, drink tea, wear something, go to work.
Arrive home, take a bath, eat something, sleep.
In saturday it is: wake up, clean house, wash clothes, do all other home chores, leave to see SO.
Sunday: return home with SO, cook a food for the whole week with her help until it is night (I have only 1 cooking pot, meaning each dish must be done sequentially, instead of parallel, also the kitchen is shit, IF I had several pots, I still would be unable to use them), eat something, send SO away, sleep.
I worry that if my current startup fail, I will spend another long time unemployed, and since I have college debts that currently cost 2 times a minimum wage here, this is something that I CANNOT afford (it is already 3 years that my bank account is either zero, or negative at the end of the month).
Sometimes I do some check, prodding here and there to see if I can find work, and I am not even invited to interviews, except by jobs with pay lower than my university debt (ie: the pay is 1.5* the minimum wage, or lower... those always want me working for them as developer, by the way, the minimum wage here is about 300 USD month).
Network. Talk to people be it in chat on a social network on the people next to you on the highway. Reach out to people on HN. Search through Linked in and send messages. Search google for dev blogs and email them. Search github for people in your field.
Make connections however you can. That way if something does happen you can reach out to them to see if they know someone or might know someone who knows someone that can help.
Worked for me (and many others) in the past.
Sounds like you are way underpaid and not really happy with your current job. You should be looking actively for better paid jobs that allow a healthier life / more spare time, this is particularly true if you are worried about your current company failing. If you are not invited to interviews at all, there's probably something wrong with your CV/presentation, try to identify and fix that.
I am actually overpaid for our standards. This is because I am associate of the company, and thus I can get whatever I need... The thing is, what I need (mostly thanks to student debts) is still more than what most companies here would pay to a programmer.
...and the TFA's suggestion is you add another job to this equation, unpaid, to give the work away for free in hopes somebody might like what they see when asking for a portfolio.
Lol. wtf. Don't talk about your kitchen like that.
I live in a rented room, the kitchen is shared.
The... dunno the name in english, where there is fire and you put pans over it, only one works (out of four).
Also the surfaces that you have to work (ie: cut your vegetables for example) are inclined, meaning that anything round (like a sausage, or a carrot, or a egg) will roll out of it if you don't pay attention...
In my circle, generally that is referred to as the burner (or sometimes the eye).