Where can you get a junior job remotely with such a technology stack?

Question

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I'm 26 soon, for about 9 months I've been learning to program quite closely. I had 3 months of experience as a programmer in ruby. But I want to develop in a different direction.
My stack: responsive, js6, jQuery, SASS. Familiar with BEM, JSON, AJAX.
There is only one landing page from the portfolio.
The work is needed remotely (!), because. I live in a small town, and most importantly, I am a typical introvert and my battery runs out as soon as I am placed in an office environment.
My dream is upwork, but at the moment, my level of English only allows me to correspond with foreigners. I don't understand spoken language.
The bottom line is that now the money has run out and you need to live somehow. I do not want to look for a job not related to web development.
WHERE TO FIND A JOB? There are no invites on hh even though I send responses. At the moment, I would like at least 10-15 thousand to hold out and raise the level.
Who has experience freelancing without experience? What do you advise?
What foreign exchanges are there besides upwork?
Maybe someone will take me as an apprentice)?

Answer 1

Good day!
No criticism, I only support you. Below are three tips.
1) Respect to you for your determination to comprehend programming and the frontend in particular.
2) Do not listen to those who talk about the criticality of working in the office for a speedy prof. development. Yes, this is the main option if a person has problems with self-learning, i.e. he simply cannot get together and study disciplines himself, google, yandex, ask questions on special. resources. This is clearly not your case. Therefore, if we take into account the lack of craving for a high mass proportion of pointless conversations in offices, and the desire to remain oneself, i.e. introvert, all is well. In the future, if you want, you will find the community and you can argue about technologies, and even broadcast, being some kind of evangelist))
3) I propose such a roadmap for your consideration: you only have one landing page now, so make one or two more good projects for yourself, create a good portfolio site, find a couple more orders for landings / catalog sites in your city. Put them in your portfolio too. Then it will be possible to update the resume everywhere, including on hh.ru and on MyKrug, in the "About Me" field, in addition to indicating high motivation, it would be nice, if any, to mention your related competencies (interface design, psychology, backend , mathematics, etc.). By the way, on the same hh.ru it is quite possible to find work in a remote format for Junior. There are quite a lot of small and unspoiled offices, which "advanced guys" do not pay attention to. And they look at the responses of specialists like you (ie, like you after the above). And this path is short because you already have, as I understand it, quite a lot of skills.
Good luck! *___*

Answer 2

The best option in your situation is to work as a junior at least a year in the office, because 1) the employer will have fewer requirements for your level, since you will be supervised 2) being in constant contact with more experienced colleagues, you will grow faster as a specialist .
But, if you still want to make it difficult for yourself to enter the profession and it is remote work that is fundamentally important, then I see the following options:
-work closely on your portfolio and add at least a few more works (of high quality) there. And they also wrote here that there is low competition in this stack, they can say for sure that in most cases this is not the case, there were plenty of beginners.
-change the stack, where the best ratio of the number of positions to the total number of applicants and more willing to take juniors. This is development in php, they often look for juniors to develop for android, sometimes even remotely.
As for upwork, my advice, it’s better to forget :) Because most likely you won’t pull it, because according to the same layout, 25-30 hungry Indians attack each order in 15 minutes, half of which have reviews from customers, a clogged portfolio ( often stolen) and signature rising old :D Yes, and for the money, it can not be said that it is particularly profitable than working quietly in one company. Again, constantly looking for a new order, negotiating with the client, that's still fun.

Answer 3

Nobody needs you until you are special.
Become a specialist faster - working full-time.
What is the problem with moving, say, for a couple of years, not necessarily forever.
Until a career starts, and then a remote job.

Answer 4

Freelancing without experience = an ocean of pain. BibleThump
Office with more experienced comrades - the maximum profit at the initial stage | from personal experience
I am convinced that people who talk about the uncritical work in the office at first want to harm you .
It is extremely unlikely that at the beginning of your career, even in 3 years of self-education at home, you will receive the same skills and knowledge that in a year at the office. And you definitely won’t get soft skills that are very helpful in communicating with potential / current employers.

Answer 5

And I speak as a developer with 10 years of experience, as a team leader.
As a person who has gone remote, in which I also work in a team.
But I prefer to work on my own. I don't feel like messing around with newbies, they take up a lot of time.
Right now I have a task in a new project, I solved it in 20 minutes.
Prior to that, I asked a programmer who has been working on the project for a year to solve this problem. It took an hour and a half for discussions and his kosyachnye actions, a day was waiting for the result. But he does not even understand how to do well and why it is so good.
He has no experience of working in a real team with the right processes.
Yes, his rate is 3 times less than mine. But damn ... I did it in 20 minutes, and I spent 1.5 hours of time.
I am glad that you have guys who do not work in the office and go straight to freelancing. Thanks to you, I have no competition and any customer who has experience with you appreciates me in my work. :)
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a metacognitive distortion, which consists in the fact that people with a low level of qualification make erroneous conclusions, make bad decisions, and at the same time are unable to realize their mistakes due to their low level of qualification

Answer 6

My advice to you, start working on the kwork https://kwork.ru/
10,000-15,000, in principle, you can earn.
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Answer 7

You could at least post a link to VK, a resume and a portfolio from the landing page in your profile.
But come to Tai