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Ask HN: Need help with landing a remote job

1 pointsby Alexbtlvover 10 years ago
Hey everyone,<p>My name is Alex, I&#x27;m a self taught full stack web developer. I&#x27;ve been learning for a year and a half. So far I&#x27;ve got familiar with today widely used technologies such as: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML5, Sass, git, github, jquery as well as some initial understanding of Test Driven Development, DRY principles and Object oriented programming.<p>The thing is that I&#x27;m from almost siberia. I tried to land a job here and was surprised that very few people in my town knows what Rails is, so as you might guess there is not much perspective to grow.<p>I started to look for positions using Career 2.0, GitHub jobs and so on... But seems all of them requires 2-5 years of strong development experience and Computer Science degree. Yeah, I left my University where I studied Physics... I don&#x27;t have any degree... and enough experience yet.<p>I&#x27;m interesting if there is any remote internships opportunities?<p>I&#x27;m actually not sure if I&#x27;m a job ready since I&#x27;ve never worked remotely in web development.<p>I&#x27;ve build this simple rails blogging app with user authorization and karma feature (think about it like Fb&#x27;s likes), main page with sorting posts by date added and most liked from scratch within a 40 working hours including automated tests.<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;karma-blogger.herokuapp.com&#x2F;<p>And I&#x27;ve build a web site with my friend remotely using github, so I have some initial experience of remote contributing.<p>I&#x27;m looking for a let&#x27;s say a mentor to help me get myself job ready. Also any advice is highly appreciable.<p>I&#x27;m available up to 40 hours per week.

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