How to find a job or an open source project for a novice developer?

Question

Career in IT

I want to develop in python backend. I looked at open vacancies in my city and everywhere they require middle + . I would like to find a remote job (I understand that this is an extremely difficult task for a junior developer) or just an interesting open source project. Please advise sites where you can find freelance work for a novice developer, or interesting open source projects, or give advice on how to find a job offline. Any of your advice will help.

Answer 1

That's why at interviews with candidates I ask about their pet-projects. If they are not, then he is not interested in programming. Goodbye.

Answer 2

1.5 years ago I faced the same problem. + age (38). Asked about the same questions, only bypassed the Russian forums. Registered specifically to reply.
Yes, people are right, there are tons of interesting projects on github. There are even a couple of sites where "need help" projects are marked. I don't remember the address, you can google it. The problem of contributing there is the same .. getting feedback on your (mine) pull request with junocode should be very exciting. And this, of course, is how demotivating it is at the beginning. + without money.
For myself, I found salvation in the freelance platforms Upwork and Fiver. I started with small scripts for 50-100 dollars. Constantly continuing to develop and self-teach best practices. Now I work full-time and have been paying through upwork for more than six months. GitHub and Gitlab are all green, but many projects are not open source for themselves, I solved this by giving temporary access to the repo if someone asks (except for those under nda).
I think for a small town it's quite ok.
Yes, there are downsides.
- You need self-discipline
- you need at least some English (but you need it in IT anyway, except for 1sniki))
- if you don’t allocate half of the time and money earned for self-education, you will write bad code (although many Indians live like that)
- responsibility - but skills swing faster under stress.
- lack of stability, pensions
- for the last month I have been working at night because of the time difference
after a year you can knock on the middle, but if you have developed more or less, it is unlikely that you will be satisfied with the salary-demand ratio on xx.ru
And most likely they will start writing now that it is necessary to fight the Indians there for penny projects. I agree here. I started with 12 dollars/hour (as a housekeeper from Mexico) when I scraped up 50-60k rubles a month, I was still happy, because. in my city, at the level that I had, they didn’t take it at all)) they just took smart girls from the university for 25k. A year has passed, I recently noted the transition of the threshold of 200. I understand that I am still a rogue and an Indian, but I am still sure that at my level and at my age, developers in the Russian Federation are not paid that much. But maybe I'm wrong.
In general, good luck to you, if you try, you will surely get somewhere.
I also heard in our top Yandex savings companies ... to knock ok after training right with them. It would be great to read about someone's real experience.
All of the above is not a call to action. Just described the experience, perhaps the mistake of the survivor and most likely not the truth and the delirium of a madman. Think it over. And good luck.
Picture from Vastrik.ru

Answer 3

Discover two sites
xx.ru and githubcom

Answer 4

Keep open source Django project https://github.com/Vladislava05/TaskMaster