I posted this a few days ago, but didn't get any leads, so I'm going for round two. Hope you guys don't mind. :) Lesson learned: Don't post at 1:30 AM.<p>Hi!<p>My name is James and I'm a student at App Academy in San Francisco. We spend a lot of time working on projects in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Backbone. In less than a month I gained enough skill to build a lite version of Rails' ActiveRecord in a day. We will be finishing up around the middle of next month and then I will be searching for a job as a junior engineer (not that I haven't already started looking).<p>Here is my problem: I want to stay in San Francisco while I look for a job, but the money is running dry very quickly. Things are more expensive here than I anticipated. If I don't find a way to get some money after I finish my stint at App Academy, I will have to move back to Florida and stay with my mom while I look.<p>Will you let me work with you for a month or two? Not only will this allow me to stay in the area while I look for work, but I will gain experience and you will get some cheap labor. If you are interested then I invite you to check out my GitHub and StackOverflow accounts or shoot me an email, all of which can be found in my profile. Payment is negotiable. I really just want enough to pay my bills until I search for the right job.<p>Hope I hear some good news soon!<p>James
I'm going to tell you what other people haven't told yet.<p>Nobody cares whether you went to App Academy or learned how to code in your mom's garage.<p>Nobody cares if you have enough skill to rewrite the linux kernel from scratch.<p>If you want a job, you have to understand hiring managers needs and fears, and most importantly you need to know how to address them.<p>If you know how to get things done on time, and on budget then you're hirable.<p>While it shows passion that you built yet-another-asteroids-port it's irrelevant for the most part.<p>and this is coming from one 25 yo software engineer without a college degree making an income way above average and hardly 2 years of real experience.
James - off topic, but you write well. You seem like a high quality dude. I wish I had the money to work something out with you like other posters. Just want to offer one piece of advice: watch out for Winklevoss-type douche bags. They'll exploit you without pay, so make sure when soliciting work on here you end up with someone who will furnish a letter of offer or an agreement so you get paid even if their dumb idea doesn't work out, etc.
James, I'm in no position to help out someone right now, but I do hope things work out for you. I offer you my best wishes and an upvote. Best of luck and keep trying.
Good luck -- don't sell yourself short looking for anything you can get, even if it's for a short period of time do something that is engaging or interesting to you.<p>side note: the link to your Twitter profile on your site <a href="http://www.brwr.org/about" rel="nofollow">http://www.brwr.org/about</a> is broken.
Just curious, but why stay in San Francisco? Austin is FAR more doable living-expense-wise, and there is a budding startup scene from what I hear so there's bound to be a few jobs. Sure it's Texas, but it's not like you need to stay forever.