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This. A lot of the projects that you need to do for a house are things that aren't terribly hard to do yourself (or figure out how — YouTube is loaded with tutorials!), and it's a very, very good thing to learn and internalize.
But what if you have newborns or an exhausting family? Figuring out how to do all of this oneself on top of all of that is pretty stressful.
I'm working on a website to help new home buyers prepare to buy a home. You enter a few details about your financial situation and location and I present your "home preparedness" summary. I then present a list of homes in the area for you to browse, each with a score to show how affordable it is for you. Finally, you can save homes to your account to track changes over time as we help you to prepare for your first (or subsequent) home purchase.
Right now it's a Django application that I've been working on for a few weeks now. I hope to have a MVP ready that I could present here soon.
jlamp commented on Ask HN: How do you find jobs to apply for? What's your main pain point? · Posted by u/jlamp
I've only been doing internal postings for the last several years. Although I have looked at external postings.
The main issue with both of them is that everyone wants "senior" developers (the definition seems to vary). Nobody seems to be willing to provide any training. Sure, I have AWS certs, but they don't mean much when each company has their own policies and architectures.
I consider myself intermediate because the tech stacks I have used vary greatly and have switched every few years. I was a senior dev and even a tech lead in FileNet work (unofficially), but there's not much work for that.
I'm sorry you've had to deal with these misleading posts; many of them are not written well and over-inflate the word "senior" in their descriptions.
Do you feel your main issue then is onboarding onto companies not willing to provide training but you're eager to put the time in to learn somehow?
jlamp commented on Ask HN: How do you find jobs to apply for? What's your main pain point? · Posted by u/jlamp
I (a generalist with experience all over the tech map, doing mostly devops/integration work) have seen only a single valid offer coming from a recruiter (and it was highly targeted). Not a big challenge for me specifically since I found jobs myself talking directly to companies and via personal network, but recruiters with no idea who are they talking to / looking for is somewhere there on the challenges list for the system as a whole. The job boards are better but not great either. I killed my linkedin account after getting a thousand of "you mentioned keyword Java, would you like a corp Java junior developer position in a different country?".
Also, we could really use some better definitions for "remote position" https://blog.viraptor.info/post/on-finding-remote-work ("remote for US citizens with a weekly meeting in SF", is not useful for 99.9% cases, but still comes up when looking for remote positions)
I agree, many of these job postings use misleading terms.
Regarding your use of your personal network and talking directly to companies, do you feel this approach has always worked well for you or do you feel like something is still missing whenever you search/apply for new roles?