Remote work

Share your experiences with freelancing, contract work, gigs and full-time remote jobs. Here are a few places to find work: https://weworkremotely.com/categories/2-programming/jobs#intro http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote-developer-jobs?sort=p https://remotive.io/find-a-job/ https://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=Remote https://remoteok.io/remote-dev-jobs https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

I'm doing a freelance job for an acquaintance right now. I got ~$450 and some free food out of it, but the stress from lack of progress is annoying. Things are better now that I don't have school to worry about.

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I work remotely for a Fortune 100 company. > wake up at 7AM > work until 9:30AM > have "standup" call > work until 4:30/5PM > dick around on the computer until 10PM It's the happiest I've ever been. I mostly write open source soykaf to consume our APIs

>>1288 Welp, i'm sending resumes and while i don't find any job, i'm building project to increase my future chances. Any tips?

>>1288 what technologies are you using?

>>1292 Pick a platform -- become an expert. ecommerce is ripe for the picking right now. So find an ecommerce platform that you like working on and become an expert. Make modules (or plugins, or extensions) for that platform and release them to the public. Make sure you link to your github on your resume. >>1293 PHP mostly, several PHP ecommerce platforms. A soykaf load of bash, and Ruby to glue together CI and deploying demo sites (to help the sales team). Most of the code I write is hosted by the customer, but demo stuff is hosted on AWS, so I'm using docker to manage dev environments and deploy demos and new versions of my code is released.

>>1294 How do you become an expert?

>>1294 Know any good resources? I'm considering shopify. If you recommend something else or have better resources for another common one just holla or post in the ebook thread

>>1303 Do things. Keep doing different things until you are able to successfully do a lot of things.

>>1378 That's not very specific or helpful.

>>1381 Your question was pretty broad, Lain. To become an expert that's pretty much it. For example, let's say you want to draw, you learn about the basics, you practice a lot, you learn a lot about more advanced techniques, you practice then a lot. Loop until your peers view you as an expert in that field. The exact same can be done about any other skill. I'm not sure how to provide better information unless you need specifics. If you want to become an expect web developer, study the basic necessary skills(programming, HTML, CSS, JS), practice them a lot, then study more advanced(Whatever frameworks you want to work with, improve your css selector usage, html5 tags usage, ES6/7 for readability) skills, practice them a lot.. I'm not sure how else to answer, sorry.

>>1376 Shopify is a good way to go. It's getting a lot of traction recently. I don't know enough about Shopify to really steer you through learning it, though, sorry.

>>1381 > How do you become an expert? Is a very vague question. You have have to ask specific questions if you want assistance.

>>1381 but it's true. You don't even need to have an original idea, like just make another drag and drop page builder from scratch. You'll learn a ton of new things along the way, more importantly you'll be able to practice the stuff you suck at, and most importantly you'll have a tangible example at the end... even if it isn't original.

>>1376 https://help.shopify.com/themes/liquid also clearly grab a couple of ruby books

>>1219 This is my dream. trying to get enough skills to make it a reality

>>1219 I did freelance stuff for a while. It's kinda fun but the pay is like kicking dead whales down the beach dick, wayyyyy too much work to justify it. For my current job I worked in a cubicle for about a year, then they moved to an open plan type thing I wasn't crazy about so with some politiking I managed to get remote work amended into my contract. Mixed bag so far. Honestly I kinda like having an office, there's something to be said for the psychological value of having a place you go to that's not home that's just dedicated to work. When I'm working at home it's easy to get distracted by making lunch or doing whatever chores. It's also hard to keep myself from starting to drink in the middle of the day. On the up side waking up for standup in late morning, mumbling on a call for 2 minutes, and going back to sleep for a few more hours is pretty great.

I sleep in, I jerk off a lot, I play video games, and do maybe 1-2 hours of work a day.

OP here, i got my first remote job and i'm really satisfied. I'm working as a fullstack dev, it doesn't pay that well, but it's a zero bureaucracy job, if i don't want to work, i don't have to. I have a lot of free time now, considering i don't have to wake up early, get food ready, take a shower, go to work and wait the whole 8 hours even if there isn't any work to do. I imagine that i'm in a fairly rare position since i don't have any specific timetable to work, i just have a list of tasks and i can complete them whenever, if there are no tasks, i don't have to do anything and i'll get paid the same amount. I plan to get into bug bounty hunting now that i have more free time available.

There's a bunch of websites that aggregate remote job postings (some examples in OP, I've seen others as well). Can anyone share their experiences using those services, positive or negative? How legit are they? Those of you remoters that already posted, how did you find your jobs?