You&#x27;re a CEO, and would hire the Real-Estate King, if he could code?<p>I have a few websites.  They don&#x27;t produce much income, but some guys offer their services for hire;  thinking I might hire them if they say the right things?  I tell them up front, I can&#x27;t afford to hire them, but some are very persistent.<p>They send me their resumes, even after telling them I&#x27;m a struggling website owner, and I don&#x27;t make a living doing this work.  From my perspective,  it&#x27;s so easy to spot the Real Estate Kings?  This one guy wanted me to join his companies, exclusive website forum.  He was going to put in a good word, so the the other Winners would let me in.  Well, I went to the forum, and it was just this guy and me.  Every article was written by him.  Every comment on the site was written by this guy.  I couldn&#x27;t  belive the verbage this guy was throwing around.  His favorite phrase was &quot;Are you interested in monetizing?  Followed by &quot;You need to scale!&quot;  It&#x27;s was almost like he memorized that movie about Facebook?  And yes, he had a professional, cheesy profile pic. with a tie, and head cocked.  Call me old school, but  I wouldn&#x27;t put his picture into Google Image search, but that same cheesy picture came up at least a couple dozen times just in just Images.  He used the same portrait pic. in every website--ever created?   My point is I had this guy figured out pretty quick.  I think, if he didn&#x27;t try so hard to sound professional, I would have loved to kick around a few ideas I have?  And yes, if we meshed, I have a small bank roll I would be willing to risk.<p>I thought hiring in tech was about abilities?  I don&#x27;t care what a person looks like?  It&#x27;s so easy to spot &quot;The Real Estate Kings&quot; of Coders; I couldn&#x27;t imagine trying to hide who you are?  Yea, scrub the web, if you can, of anything controversial, but be honest?  Honesty used to go along way?
Do you really need that Starbucks fueled, go, go, save world with my app, never sleep, positive vib in order to get noticed for employment?<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I&#x27;ll take the well rounded individual, with some finished projects over a Cheerleader?