Title: Throwaway account here, but been on HN for a long time. I&#x27;m going through a big life change, and this post is going to ramble a bit. But I need your help, HN.<p>I&#x27;ve also been running my own business for a long time, mostly B2B consulting&#x2F;development&#x2F;training in the Microsoft&#x2F;Office world. But I don&#x27;t want to be pigeon-holed.<p>For my own company, however, I&#x27;ve done a lot. I&#x27;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&#x2F;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&#x2F;Python&#x2F;Ruby native, or via NodeRED&#x2F;Huginn&#x2F;Zapier) and built more web sites (I favor SSR—I guess because I&#x27;m an old?—but have a functional working knowledge of React and Vue) than I can count; I&#x27;ve &quot;done data science&quot; well enough to talk the talk (for text-processing and basic statistical domains); I&#x27;ve worked on &quot;citizen journalism&quot; 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 <i>EXCELLENT</i> public speaker (I&#x27;ve spoken at many conferences in my industry, and consistently get the highest rankings); and a lot more.<p>(…see my reply for more…)<p>I&#x27;d love to be doing something where I am making a difference, either with code, or maybe as a public-facing (speaking&#x2F;writing&#x2F;coding) developer evangelist.<p>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.<p>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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