jmsbrwr

I'm an engineer at a company in Palo Alto and I am looking for work to keep me busy during my free time. If you need your MVP built (and are willing to pay, of course) then I'd like to talk to you and get a better idea of what your idea is, what your timeline and budget looks like, and things of that nature. Feel free to email me at jms at brwr dot org.

I'm an engineer at a company in Palo Alto and I am looking for work to keep me busy during my free time. If you need your MVP built (and are willing to pay, of course) then I'd like to talk to you and get a better idea of what your idea is, what your timeline and budget looks like, and things of that nature.

Feel free to email me at jms at brwr dot org.

To put it bluntly, I currently offer no value to the tech community that has gotten me to a position where I am employable; and I don't like that.

What I am looking for is advice on how I can give back. Yes, I know I could write some blog posts and craft amazing open source projects that make everyone's life easier, but I don't know how. What do I write about? What would my amazing open source project do?

Also, I would like to join discussions here on HN. The problem with that is that I am the kind of person who, if I don't have anything to add to the conversation, does not say anything. And I almost always feel like I have nothing to add.

How do I get over all this and become useful?

Do companies take on interns who aren't in school?

I posted this a few days ago, but didn't get any leads, so I'm going for round two. Hope you guys don't mind. :) Lesson learned: Don't post at 1:30 AM.

Hi!

My name is James and I'm a student at App Academy in San Francisco. We spend a lot of time working on projects in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Backbone. In less than a month I gained enough skill to build a lite version of Rails' ActiveRecord in a day. We will be finishing up around the middle of next month and then I will be searching for a job as a junior engineer (not that I haven't already started looking).

Here is my problem: I want to stay in San Francisco while I look for a job, but the money is running dry very quickly. Things are more expensive here than I anticipated. If I don't find a way to get some money after I finish my stint at App Academy, I will have to move back to Florida and stay with my mom while I look.

Will you let me work with you for a month or two? Not only will this allow me to stay in the area while I look for work, but I will gain experience and you will get some cheap labor. If you are interested then I invite you to check out my GitHub and StackOverflow accounts or shoot me an email, all of which can be found in my profile. Payment is negotiable. I really just want enough to pay my bills until I search for the right job.

Hope I hear some good news soon!

James

Seeing as I am about to finish such a program, this could be very useful information!

Hi!

My name is James and I'm a student at App Academy in San Francisco. We spend a lot of time working on projects in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Backbone. In less than a month I gained enough skill to build a lite version of Rails' ActiveRecord in a day. We will be finishing up around the middle of next month and then I will be searching for a job as a junior engineer (not that I haven't already started looking).

Here is my problem: I want to stay in San Francisco while I look for a job, but the money is running dry very quickly. Things are more expensive here than I anticipated. If I don't find a way to get some money after I finish my stint at App Academy, I will have to move back to Florida and stay with my mom while I look.

Will you let me work with you for a month or two? Not only will this allow me to stay in the area while I look for work, but I will gain experience and you will get some cheap labor. If you are interested then I invite you to check out my GitHub and StackOverflow accounts or shoot me an email, all of which can be found in my profile. Payment is negotiable. I really just want enough to pay my bills until I search for the right job.

Hope I hear some good news soon!

James

Let's say that, over the next six months, I wanted to learn a bunch of computer science topics that are used in-industry and how they are used. What would you recommend I learn and in what order?

Also, are there any lesser known resources that would help? Obviously I know of Coursera and EdX, but I am hoping there are a few more gems out there.