Homeless Developer in Los Angeles Needs Work, Can You Please Help?
But I don&#x27;t want any free stuff from the gov&#x27;t. I want to work! I&#x27;m not a 10x&#x27;er. I did Node.js&#x2F;Javascript for 7 years. I&#x27;m experienced with both front-end&#x2F;back-end web development, and SQL and AWS and I&#x27;m a minor wizard when it comes to Linux. Maybe I&#x27;m hitting the dreaded age wall in tech.<p>I have applied to hundreds of devjobs both in LA and remote using all of the top job boards. I got only a handful of interviews. Obviously, the problem is me. I do really well if I can get past the HR firewall, and get an in person interview to talk shop with another developer. Recruiters tell me that I&#x27;m a &quot;job hopper&quot; and that &quot;it&#x27;ll be difficult to place you.&quot; Is that the new code word for &quot;you&#x27;re too old to code&quot;? Now that I&#x27;m branded as a job hopper, how am I ever supposed to stop being a job hopper?  Only low quality, high-turnover companies hire job hoppers, so I end up permanently stuck doing more job hopping.<p>Do you or anyone you know have some dev work that you could hand off to me ASAP?  Anything that can keep me going to live to fight another day to someday achieve my dream of founding my own startup (I have had the startup idea that I want to build for 8 years--it&#x27;s a far out crazy idea for a hardware device involving Lidar that nobody else is doing).  Maybe your company or your friend&#x27;s company is looking for a Node.js&#x2F;Javascript web developer? I&#x27;m open to working with any language on any project. I have also worked with a little of Go&#x2F;Python&#x2F;Perl&#x2F;PHP&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;Lua&#x2F;C. I don&#x27;t have any means of transportation, which has severely constricted my options in the vast sprawl of LA, so you would have to get me to you or I can work remotely. I do keep clean enough that if you passed me on the street you wouldn&#x27;t even realize I&#x27;m long-term homeless. I should also add that I&#x27;m open to working anywhere world-wide, and not just in LA.<p>Thank you for reading this and thank you for any help or advice or encouraging words.<p>unhomedcoder@tutanota.com