Learning to Program

[tleslie]

There are two things you can do immediately,
volunteer in a shop,
I have "hired" on about 9 volunteers over the years
and passed employment onto 8 out of nine of them.
Typical volunteer periods of 4  months, i.e.
get teeth into a decent sized project, and to
be able to prove your worth.

You can also bid on a job board, i.e. 
"get a  freelancer . com "  or the others,
if you are willing to work for escrowed funds
released on clients satisfaction,
then you simply have to low bid ,
and you can be working for $$$$ tomorrow.
You can bid and take on small jobs,
pretty much in any programing facet.
you will eventually grow out
of board bid freelancing as
its slightly above slave labour on the evolution chain,
but it will serve the purpose, you will get work,
and you'll get it as quick as you need, at a cost
of only get remunerated at 10$/hr? 15$/hr 6$/hr .... it varies.

-tl



On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:06 -0400, Kevin Morris wrote:
> thanks will make that part of my strategy...I do a lot of work on my
> own, guess I need to market skills..
> 
> > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:59:08 -0400
> > From: talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Learning to Program
> > 
> > On 10/2/07, Kevin Morris <kevjmorris-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > You are a self-taught programmer, so how did you get your first
> programming gig? as
> > > I am finding that most jobs require a minimum of 1-2 years
> experience. Any suggestions!
> > 
> > Um, get experience? :)
> > 
> > But seriously .. if you're passionate about something, just start
> > doing whatever it is as a hobby, and then start showing your stuff
> > around, or talking it up. This works if you're keen on pretty well
> > anything.
> > 
> > Do that enough, tell people you're looking for work in the field,
> and
> > pretty soon you'll have work.
> > 
> > The reasons this strategy might fail would be if you're not really
> > that passionate about what you do; you don't work hard enough at
> your
> > craft; you don't tell enough people that you're looking for work; or
> > you're telling the wrong people.
> > 
> > The most powerful kind of advertising is word-of-mouth.
> > 
> > So come up with a 30 second pitch for the kind of work you do, and
> > tell everyone you know, and everyone you come across. If enough
> people
> > know what you do, opportunities should present themselves to you.
> > 
> > Alex
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