I sent my app to the hiring manager, they liked it. I got hired. The end.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Marcin Orlowski <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 13 May 2011 15:02, Knutsford Software <[email protected]>wrote: > > I am a programmer. The point is how do you get paid Android work if you >> haven't already done some that you can show people. It is the catch 22 >> situation. How have other people on the list manages to get out of it. >> > > If you are programmer then you shall have bunch of apps you wrote for > yourself while you'd been learning android. These apps got usually no value > for anyone else - these are sort of "hello worlds" with wide variety of > complexicity. This gives you knowledge on "how" things shall be done (your > "know-how" :). You did not necesairly need to have platform related > portfolio (definitely helps if you want to be paid for someone who does not > know you at all though), but if you got record of previous activity and this > record indicates you had to be knowledgeable enough to had these tasks > completed (or customer approaches you by recommendation) then people may > approach you asking for doing something on Android. If you are serious on > your works, matured enough then you simply know your limits. Customer tells > you what he wants, you evalue if your "know how" suffices to have things > done and if not, you evaluate if you can elevate your skills to required > level. If your answer is "yes" then you take the challenge, then get things > done right, then get paid and eventually got something "real" in your > porftolio. If your answer is "no" and you hope be ready for next project, > you tell your customer "sorry, not this time, I am busy" :), and try to > catch up with what you lacked (or at least with hardest parts). Simple as > that. Works perfectly fine for me for many years. > > > Regards, > Marcin Orlowski > > *Tray Agenda <http://bit.ly/trayagenda>* - keep you daily schedule > handy... > *Date In Tray* <http://bit.ly/dateintraypro> - current date at glance... > WebnetMobile on *Facebook <http://webnetmobile.com/fb/>* and > *Twitter<http://webnetmobile.com/twitter/> > * > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG: http://solrpg.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
