shawnfrompdx

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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
thanks for the invite! i had to leave portland in 2020 due to the cost of housing and the humanitarian disaster of homelessness. I'm in New York state now which is also not great for other reasons. I hope Portland can improve things fo
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
@Auronis here are the updates I have in progress. this is bringing it back to something closer to what i had a few versions ago. any feedback? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_sxoyHpYjahnagfRhOlWsLEo...
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i gave it a 1-year shot at running the cabin as an airbnb, but it is only profitable the peak couple of months a year because we are extremely remote with very harsh winters. i feel a bit stuck under that until the end of this year because
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
thank you, i appreciate it
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
4 or 5 of them told me they were in the same situation, highly regarded people i never thought that could happen to
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
thank you for taking the time. If i was petty i could share the past 5 versions of my website and resume i created in the last year which precisely followed most of what you recommended here. I had a completely vanilla narrative resume by v
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
I was just trying to become a homeowner. my first house in new york was about 1/4th to 1/5th the cost of a "starter home" anywhere in california. I was never going to be able to afford that
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
I am heeding and already doing all of the advice that has come up here and on the original thread, with the exception of 'move to where there are in-office jobs and try to get an in-office job' because that's not really feasi
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i have spent the last couple days responding to hundreds of comments on the substack piece. no new pieces of advice came up on this thread which were not already covered on the substack comments. advice which i have acknowledged. i was alre
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
ive done this with chatgpt and claude
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
if you read the original article i talked about how i got into this position. I originally had renters at both properties covering almost all the costs. they left shortly before losing my job.
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
I am the author of this piece, and i didn't share it to HN, I don't hang out here. I just gotta say wow, tough crowd. i wrote this piece from an emotionally low point after another fruitless day of applying to jobs. I didn't
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i was just describing the all around comfort level of my lifestyle. if you drive a couple states away for a camping trip for a week, get a couple motels maybe, eat out, etc, it can be 2k$ pretty easily
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
just to offer a minor correction, the ratio was more like 800 applications for multi round interviews with ~10 companies (so maybe about 25 interviews). probably 25% of applications received a "no" response, while the rest ghosted
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
thanks
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
by 'advanced', i simply meant complex web apps that are more than CRUD / more than wordpress. to take one that comes to mind, i built this server job that synced with an old school phone center CRM for a home security corp, a
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i have a BACKGROUND in php in the caveman times, but i have been working fullstack typescript/GCP since 2017
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
while i have a BACKGROUND in php, i have not been seeking php work and havent been working fulltime in php since like 2017. Since then i've been fullstack in typescript. i've been seeking typescript roles in apps & vr. i have
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
thank you.
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i got words of encouragement but no one had leads
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i applied at a web dev role at SU, in-office, making less than what i made in like 2009, with skills that are frankly below me. custom written cover letter. job been posted for months. they just hit me with the 'no thanks'
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
my parent corp let go many, maybe 20% of each of their various dev teams in early 2024, right after everyones productivity was starting to go 3-10x. instead of keeping everyone and dreaming way way bigger, it was more like 'get the sam
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
thanks. this is the fifth iteration of my resume in this last year's search. im clearly trying to push for ai-coding, as i think i was often overlooked for being too 'trad'. in reality im all-in on ai.
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
I said what I said. it still beats going into in an office
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
ive had tons of in-office dev jobs, but have primarily been working online since like 2012. not only has it been way better for my health and sanity but my productivity is way way higher. the thought of going back to an office is PTSD induc
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
for sure it would be much easier if it was just me to consider in the picture
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
I will probably begin doing this but i will say-- in the past it was not a hurdle at all, and i got many interviews and a few jobs with this name. I have had about 10 interviews in the last year, going to 4th rounds, and nobody suggested it
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
just for reference about my amassed 'wealth', the combined cost of my mortgages is less than a studio apartment's rent in the bay area. i left the west coast for precisely this reason
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
this is a factor for me. I've always had to pick up new languages frameworks and skills on-the-job. but today hirers are seeking only really niched down specific experts, and i suspect i am filtered out automatically by not matching th
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by shawnfrompdx 1y ago
i get where you are coming from. i tried 5 versions of my resume in the last year. talking to recruiters. shotgunning resumes. hand crafting one-off cover letters. I have tried many approaches. you can guage my resume for yourself. the cur

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