Ask HN: How do you market yourself at your mid-30's?
Hello folks,<p>I have a weird situation and if you don&#x27;t mind, I would like to ask for your advice.<p>I&#x27;m having hard time getting hired, both onsite and remotely.<p>To be honest with you, I really suck at marketing myself.<p>I&#x27;m a Computer Scientist and I had worked in IT for 11 years and currently I&#x27;m unemployed for 3.<p>So far I have been in Tech Support my whole career life with an exception of 2 years as Web Developer.<p>Every time I would attempt to start as a developer, I would get either rejected or labeled as overqualified.<p>One possible interpretation could be my age; I&#x27;m 36 years old.<p>What confuses me the most is that when I interview for an opened position, they would let know that I&#x27;m a senior developer on a personal level.<p>To answer your possible question as of why they would reply in this way, let me tell you what (I think) I know and what I like doing during my free time:<p>Others enjoy solving crossword puzzles and sudoku, playing MMORPG games, and go out for a beer; I love playing with programming languages, libraries, and frameworks.<p>What languages do I like fooling around?<p><pre><code>  * shell scripting - automations, automations, automations!
  * C - One day I will acquire Fabrice Bellard&#x27;s 1 millionth of expertise and start doing incredible things like him. I&#x27;m looking at you Tiny C Compiler!
  * C++ - I can&#x27;t wait to see modules in actual use with C++ in combination with Concepts. It&#x27;s a hard language to fully understand, but it worths the effort.
  * PHP - For WordPress, its fork [ClassicPress], and Laravel. I did not like Laravel for some reason; it&#x27;s alright though, but I prefer Django and Flask.
  * Python - Cython language, Django, Flask, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, web scraping...so many things to list here that I find interesting!
  * Perl - don&#x27;t ask me why, but I LOVE this language&#x27;s syntax. I don&#x27;t use it that much though, but one day I will build a project to keep my head spinning.
  * Nim - If you like Python&#x27;s elegance, LISP&#x27;s macros, and C&#x27;s performance...well, there you have it!
  * Lua - I haven&#x27;t played a lot with this language, but it&#x27;s so easy to use. I keep my eyes on Titan and Pallene programming languages which are AOT compiled sister languages to Lua.
  * Ocaml - I want to learn a functional programming language to keep my head active. I plan to play with Haskell too for the sake of mental &quot;physique&quot;.
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There are so many things to list here that I&#x27;m really interested in.<p>What I lack is specialization and I&#x27;m doing my best to remedy this.<p>I can&#x27;t stay unemployed forever and be forced to depend on my family at this age.<p>Can anyone help me figure out ways to stand on my feet?<p>Cheers.