New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Been self-employed for 18 years, am I hirable?
Ask HN: Been self-employed for 18 years, am I hirable?
49 by hirable_taway | 22 comments on Hacker News.
Throwaway account here, but been on HN for a long time. I'm going through a big life change, and this post is going to ramble a bit. But I need your help, HN. I've also been running my own business for a long time, mostly B2B consulting/development/training in the Microsoft/Office world. But I don't want to be pigeon-holed. For my own company, however, I've done a lot. I've written many, many chatbots with various functionalities for many platforms (some incorporating NLP—spacy.io is a particular favorite of mine); developed many non-throwaway, high quality apps/services with NodeJS, Python (Django), and Ruby (Rails); done video post-production and ingestion automation (latter via AWS, including Lambda); created many custom Wordpress plugins and themes; created more back-end mashups (NodeJS/Python/Ruby native, or via NodeRED/Huginn/Zapier) and built more web sites (I favor SSR—I guess because I'm an old?—but have a functional working knowledge of React and Vue) than I can count; I've "done data science" well enough to talk the talk (for text-processing and basic statistical domains); I've worked on "citizen journalism" projects that were well-received in, ahem, certain social media circles (my politics trend toward the more liberal end of the spectrum); I am an EXCELLENT public speaker (I've spoken at many conferences in my industry, and consistently get the highest rankings); and a lot more. (…see my reply for more…) I'd love to be doing something where I am making a difference, either with code, or maybe as a public-facing (speaking/writing/coding) developer evangelist. I am the geek renaissance man of the 21st century, with the arthritis of a retiree, the dark humor of a comedian with their own Netflix show, and the ADHD-superpowers of a whole fleet of college grads. Am I hirable as a contractor (or more)? How do I craft a resume that both honestly reflects this kind of history and does justice to the breadth of knowledge I have?
49 by hirable_taway | 22 comments on Hacker News.
Throwaway account here, but been on HN for a long time. I'm going through a big life change, and this post is going to ramble a bit. But I need your help, HN. I've also been running my own business for a long time, mostly B2B consulting/development/training in the Microsoft/Office world. But I don't want to be pigeon-holed. For my own company, however, I've done a lot. I've written many, many chatbots with various functionalities for many platforms (some incorporating NLP—spacy.io is a particular favorite of mine); developed many non-throwaway, high quality apps/services with NodeJS, Python (Django), and Ruby (Rails); done video post-production and ingestion automation (latter via AWS, including Lambda); created many custom Wordpress plugins and themes; created more back-end mashups (NodeJS/Python/Ruby native, or via NodeRED/Huginn/Zapier) and built more web sites (I favor SSR—I guess because I'm an old?—but have a functional working knowledge of React and Vue) than I can count; I've "done data science" well enough to talk the talk (for text-processing and basic statistical domains); I've worked on "citizen journalism" projects that were well-received in, ahem, certain social media circles (my politics trend toward the more liberal end of the spectrum); I am an EXCELLENT public speaker (I've spoken at many conferences in my industry, and consistently get the highest rankings); and a lot more. (…see my reply for more…) I'd love to be doing something where I am making a difference, either with code, or maybe as a public-facing (speaking/writing/coding) developer evangelist. I am the geek renaissance man of the 21st century, with the arthritis of a retiree, the dark humor of a comedian with their own Netflix show, and the ADHD-superpowers of a whole fleet of college grads. Am I hirable as a contractor (or more)? How do I craft a resume that both honestly reflects this kind of history and does justice to the breadth of knowledge I have?
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