DanielStarling

From my perspective having been on a pure road trip:

Pretty low-key for a functional not-quite-douchey-tacticool pair of pants. Pockets are of huge value when you carry your life with you on the road. Jeans are probably the next best bet if you need to look decent, but will feel bad in hot weather, not keep certain important areas dry, and lack the cargo capacity. Synthetic clothing helps a lot here. It dries very quickly and aireates better -- less trips to laundromat.

Comfort and function quickly took precedence on a half-year road trip I participated in. If you're trying to run cheap (car/forest camping for free, working in city by day), you want clothing that will not start stinking you up in under 3 days, and need certain items (phone, flashlight, pocket knife, etc.) quick at hand. If you are going to face clients/prospects, you keep a change of casual clothing fresh for just that purpose (and freshen up that day!). Granted, this is from a road-nomad perspective, but you get the idea.

SEEKING EMPLOYEE, REMOTE, UNITED STATES

Cyanna Education Services [1] is building a web-based business workflow platform to service the education industry. We are looking for a full-time Rails developer to bring on board to advance the platform. Someone who wants to build clean, well-tested code that approaches problems in an architecturally sound way.

Some PHP experience is a plus for supporting legacy systems.

If you are a self-starter and knowledgeable code wrangler, please email us a little bit about yourself, including resume and github username, to [email protected] (no recruiters please).

[1] http://www.cyanna.com/

This is not necessarily helpful, but consider eliminating "wait" as a thing you can do. If it is true you cannot leave the country due to financial constrains and you do not wish to do it as a result, then stop waiting to leave.

Now your focus can be re-targeted to doing -- so long as it's not doing waiting. It sounds like you have freelancing aspirations. Perhaps something worth doing is building a solid social network with a referral program. A bonafide consultancy. You may still want to go to another country, but you aren't waiting to do it -- you are starting a consultancy.

There may come a day when you see the financial success you set out for. You'll note you want to leave the country, so you will book a ticket for next week and set up an apartment. You'll just do it.

Semantically, you still waited. Mentally, you took action -- so there was no negative fallout usually associated with waiting. Always commit fully to your present task, do not let the delusion of waiting creep in and breed complacency.

It's what I am trying, at least... human nature does have a lot of exploits.

SEEKING WORK - Remote - United States (Arkansas)

I'm coming out of my first serious startup venture, BarBird, and wanted to get back in to consulting. I tend to specialize in full-stack implementations.

Present active skillset:

  * Ruby on Rails
  * MySQL, Postgres
  * Javascript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS

Significant experience in:

  Android, Java (SE, EE), C, Lua

Some example projects:

  * BarBird - http://blinkbeam.com/projects/barbird
  * LowerMyPing - http://blinkbeam.com/projects/lowermyping
  * https://github.com/intractablequery

Contact:

  Daniel Starling
  http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=87468011
  [email protected]

This is a bit annoying. My company has an IRC bot that notifies us when someone fails to properly fill out an important AJAX POSTed form on our front page and soon found out all the "errors" we were seeing on IRC were generated by googlebot.

Note: if you do this long enough you'll end up with a shoulder slump worse than the classic one desk jockeys have. Try to balance it out with back excercise.