needajobb

Re:Ask HN: What skills would get me the best remote job? on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:12PM (#16989473)

Not sure I particularly enjoy being a web developer, it just seems to be where I have landed. I do love coding of all types though. There are definitely some open source libraries I am interested in though. I guess this leads to further questions, say I were to contribute heavily to a decent project, would this be sufficient to get a company's interest up (in your opinion) - or do you think it should just be one part of my strategy?

Re:Ask HN: What skills would get me the best remote job? on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:07PM (#16989419)

Interesting. Yeah I'm definitely more the latter, I work on fairly complex financial saas type products..

Ask HN: What skills would get me the best remote job?

Posted by needajobb on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So, due to family reasons I can't move from where I live (Ireland). The available jobs and salaries are incredibly poor here, I am struggling to make ends meet.I feel I should try to aim for a remote job with a company that is willing to pay a much better salary (I am thinking $100k). I am a fairly competent web developer. Web developers are a dime a dozen, so I doubt if companies would really...

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