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As far as my experience goes. I went to college at 16, landed my first job at 17, stopped college after 2 years and pursued more work. I've been working in the field since then and I am now 23. So I have roughly 7 years experience, with the majority of that work being done the last 4 years.
For the past 6 years I have developed mainly with PHP/MySQL, Javascript, and HTML/CSS. And using numerous frameworks and libraries.
Lately my stack looks something like: Laravel for my backend PHP Framework, MySQL as my Database, Angular as my frontend Framework, with bits of jQuery in there. I have been using Nginx as my server and know my way around Amazon Web Services and have everything on Amazon EC2. I've been building mobile applications with Titanium and Alloy as the MVC Framework. I am proficient with Photoshop.
Here is my predicament. A local software development company has been talking with me a bit, they know my skill level, they are looking for a full-stack developer with a skill set similar to mine that they can also train. They are small with around 10 of them, but they are well established offer a competitive salary and full benefits. After talking with the owner, he said he I am worth more than the $60k/yr I am being paid. Now with the $60k/yr I am being paid I also will be getting a percentage of the profits. Starts at 10% the first year, 15% the second, and stops at 20% the third year. But they aren't making any money yet.
My decision: to take the risk of staying with the current startup with the potential to make lots of money if its successful or pursue this other position and get paid a better salary with full benefits, a better working environment, the opportunity to work with other developers.
So I'm curious if anyone has been in a position such as myself, applied for a job with a startup or big company, and had them help you relocate?
What I'm doing now isn't something I want to do forever. I am a back-end developer (PHP/Laravel) with quite a bit of front-end experience, I've developed web applications entirely by myself, built servers, etc. I guess some consider that a full-stack developer? Anyways, working at home and by myself (most of the time) is getting old, I want to work with an amazing team in a cool office space and build something amazing.
The designer already has most of the project done in photoshop and I already have the database made. So we need someone that can take the PSD's and build them into a front end.
We already have an Amazon EC2 server setup with a LAMP stack. Our back-end framework is Laravel.
It is up to the front-end guy to choose what framework he wants to use on his end.
The project has had some interest from quite a few people! We have a great domain and are ready to build this quickly and get it out there!
We have beta access to Sqwiggle (http://sqwiggle.com), so working together remotely is great! We don't mind what state you are from, as long as you are willing to get online and work with us. We both have client work that we do during the weekend, but nights and weekends we are committed to this project. We obviously hope to build this into something that we can put all of our time into.
If this sounds like something you are interested in, contact me on Skype: ryHanson72
Thanks!