Re: jobs

Per Nicolas's request here is how I went about finding my PHP job. - Find a small place that thinks you know what you're talking about and convert it to a PHP shop (I did this with www.affordablecomputers.com) - become the main programmer. - Make your own PHP site one of the coolest on the net (http://www.miester.org - a matter of opinion ;o) Then release it Open Source (Open Source companies will like seeing "Published Open Source Software" or the like on a resume. - Look were you normally would for a programming job here are some sites: - www.dice.com (were I found my job) - www.phpbuilder.com (were I find most of my contract work) - http://classifieds.yahoo.com/display/employment?ct_hft=browse&action=browse&nodeid=750008675 - www.careerbuilder.com - If you are good enough to code PHP for a living you should know (or have an idea) what sites are running PHP. Submit your resume to EVERY ONE of them (I have submitted mine to google about 500 times - but requiring a masters and preferring a doctorate puts a damper on things). If you are a decent coder one of them is BOUND to call back. - Personally email EVERY job on the job sites that interest you - tell them that you're great and you're basically the world's best hacker. Then, if it's a contract job, tell them that you're not like other contractors and that your code is beautiful, but it's gonna cost them! (minimum of $80/hr. - DON'T SELL YOURSELF SHORT!!! - I made my old company, the one I converted above for $10 an hour, pay me $80 when I got my real job) Those are my pointers - they helped me get the job that I have today. Every so often I go out and follow this procedure. Even though I'm not going to be taking any of the jobs it's nice to know so many of them are out there. --Joe On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Nicolas Windpassinger - Sun wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I am looking for jobs in the states , you wrotte in one of your emails > that you had a lot of names of .com's.....would be great to post > them!!!!!!! > Thanks for your great help, > nicolas. ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."