I feel your pain, I'm in a similar position. I just turned 40, have experience in PHP, Rails, lots Javascript (including Backbone, Knockout, a bit of Angular and learning Ember now), a bit of Python and learning Scala. No degree, and most of what I've worked on were internal corporate tools or start-ups that are no longer around.
I've been building out sample apps in newer Javascript frameworks so that along with learning the newer stuff, I have something in my portfolio that I can point too.
What I've found in my interviewing is that the biggest concern people have is that I'll stick around for a few months to a year and then move on, it wasn't until an interview last week that I explained to the CEO that the work I'd been doing was always project work, I didn't regularly just pick-up and leave jobs. He wanted me to work for 60 days without pay so he could be sure that I wouldn't leave without giving 60 days notice.
I'm in Sydney, Australia, and need full-time work to keep my visa or else have to go back to Canada. Where are you based?
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I feel your pain, I'm in a similar position. I just turned 40, have experience in PHP, Rails, lots Javascript (including Backbone, Knockout, a bit of Angular and learning Ember now), a bit of Python and learning Scala. No degree, and most of what I've worked on were internal corporate tools or start-ups that are no longer around.
I've been building out sample apps in newer Javascript frameworks so that along with learning the newer stuff, I have something in my portfolio that I can point too.
What I've found in my interviewing is that the biggest concern people have is that I'll stick around for a few months to a year and then move on, it wasn't until an interview last week that I explained to the CEO that the work I'd been doing was always project work, I didn't regularly just pick-up and leave jobs. He wanted me to work for 60 days without pay so he could be sure that I wouldn't leave without giving 60 days notice.
I'm in Sydney, Australia, and need full-time work to keep my visa or else have to go back to Canada. Where are you based?
He wanted me to work for 60 days without pay
Run.