Hello Developers in the house. Seeing that a lot of aspiring developers are here, I thought of opening this thread to give our experienced Developers a chance to share and inspire aspiring developers through the following questions been answered.

1. How long did it take you to learn, before you got your first remote job

2. What was the pay

3. Finally, give some times on things you'd do differently if you were to start all over.

I’ll appreciate answers to this thread as I’m starting out my dev journey..

Hannania:

1. How long did it take you to learn, before you got your first remote job

Skip: You can learn from being an intermediate in 3 months.
If you're an absolute beginner, 6 months or more will do.

Hannania:

2. What was the pay

Well, my first remote gig was 1/4 of a mil /month naira equivalent. It was a short 2 and half month process.

Hannania:

3. Finally, give some times on things you'd do differently if you were to start all over.

I would never have learnt C# or .Net. I would stick to JavaScript and all the shades of it.
Then, I'll adopt Google Dev Ecosystem rather than Microsoft.

Ovaltine:


Skip: You can learn from being an intermediate in 3 months.
If you're an absolute beginner, 6 months or more will do.



Well, my first remote gig was 1/4 of a mil /month naira equivalent. It was a short 2 and half month process.



I would never have learnt C# or .Net. I would stick to JavaScript and all the shades of it.
Then, I'll adopt Google Dev Ecosystem rather than Microsoft.

Thanks for sharing

Ovaltine:


Skip: You can learn from being an intermediate in 3 months.
If you're an absolute beginner, 6 months or more will do.



Well, my first remote gig was 1/4 of a mil /month naira equivalent. It was a short 2 and half month process.



I would never have learnt C# or .Net. I would stick to JavaScript and all the shades of it.
Then, I'll adopt Google Dev Ecosystem rather than Microsoft.

Wow, that's quite interesting. Never thought the remote gig would be 1/4 of a million. Seems like it was an internship. Overall, that's a nice step process.

For the stack field, seems Node.js(MERN stack) is king. I'm into Java though, trying to wrap my head around Spring Framework, Hibernate and SQL. That's enough for my back end path for now. Got a Gig offer recently, but I rejected it because my Learning is not up to "job" level yet. By March, I would pitch again.

Thanks for your feedback sir.

A good guy I met of Twitter to discuss about my life with. After keeping our friendship for some time, he recommended to someone who recommended me to someone in the US to start online programming tutorial for some selected kids. At first, it seems hard but now, that's what I'm feeding on. I'm not longer there.... But I used that experience to start up my own little online tutoring. You can always check my Data science and data analysis work on Strictly4Data.ml

dauddy97:
A good guy I met on Twitter to discuss my life with. After keeping our friendship for some time, he recommended to someone who recommended me to someone in the US to start an online programming tutorial for some selected kids. At first, it seems hard but now, that's what I'm feeding on. I'm no longer there... But I used that experience to start up my little online tutoring. You can always check my Data science and data analysis work on Strictly4Data.ml

Another angle Entirely. That's where the valuable Networking skill comes into play.

If you don't mind, would you pinpoint approaches to connect and maintain such relationships online? As there are various means, yours would surely be different.

Hannania:
Wow, that's quite interesting. Never thought the remote gig would be 1/4 of a million. Seems like it was an internship. Overall, that's a nice step process.

For the stack field, seems Node.js(MERN stack) is king. I'm into Java though, trying to wrap my head around Spring Framework, Hibernate and SQL. That's enough for my back end path for now. Got a Gig offer recently, but I rejected it because my Learning is not up to "job" level yet. By March, I would pitch again.

Thanks for your feedback sir.

Please how did you get the internship,
Like the process it took you?

AustainoPatrick:


Please how did you get the internship,
Like the process it took you?

Try to have a good LinkedIn profile, and apply for available jobs.

For my strategy, when I so see an opening, I add the recruiter to my connections(using LinkedIn premium) then message them on my interest to work with their firm and how well my profile fits.

For the Top paying one's, be ready to solve data structures and algorithms problems..

Here to learn

1)LinkedIn,
2)

Self employed and loving it










Guys wey no get girlfriend get peace of mind

Why do you want to know?

mine
i have two remote jobs as a marketing manager

i got referred by a friend for one in the usa
Earn commission 12%
i was reluctant for this earlier but my friend made me see reasons that it was better

while the other is from uk , i got an email from them concerning building a website
Saw their whatsapp line, sent them a message on how i can handle their email marketing and i was offered a job
this comes with a salary

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Applied online, Started with 30k USD. Now at 54k

Quite a number of options.
1. LinkedIn : For me, i prefer applying on the company's career page directly. So after seeing the ad on Linkedln, i go the company website, view their career page and apply from there.

Atleast to avoid Linkedln (man in the middle).

Most times, the career page is under "About Us" or on the footer. Sometimes on its own though.

2. Here is a list of companies Hiring at least in Europe (i compiled it in 2020)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WMjwxMXcsIycNxcAfxzdiGtEcRKsRs6izIRZ-O15IbQ/edit?usp=sharing

Hopefully it helps someone. NB: it is not an exhaustive list.

Open the careers page, check for roles you fit in, apply directly on the career's page.

3. Be open for interviews,

4. You can even relocate to Europe based on job once you are employed. Pretty easy.

5. Recommendations from friends and Good luck

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temmypotter:
Applied online, Started with 30k USD. Now at 54k

wow God when

First job: 2,700$ monthly
Skills: Full stack web dev and web 3.0

JavaScript, html/css , react, Django ,python, databases (four actually) , php, nodejs , java


Moved into data science and engineering
First job: 3,120$ monthly
Skills: AI/ML, MLops, data engineering

Python, R, Pyspark, tensor flows , sql, stats/maths,and ML algorithms, deep learning, image recognition, AI, reinforcement learning ,graphs.


Moving into Blockchain now

Skills needed: Solidity ,web 3.0, blochchain dev, hyper ledgers and cryptography
Exp. Pay:. 8,500$ monthly

Ovaltine:

I would never have learnt C# or .Net. I would stick to JavaScript and all the shades of it.
Then, I'll adopt Google Dev Ecosystem rather than Microsoft.

Can you explain more on this?

Hannania:
Hello Developers in the house. Seeing that a lot of aspiring developers are here, I thought of opening this thread to give our experienced Developers a chance to share and inspire aspiring developers through the following questions been answered.

1. How long did it take you to learn, before you got your first remote job

2. What was the pay

3. Finally, give some times on things you'd do differently if you were to start all over.

ETL developer ??

Any SQL Database administrator here ??