If you don't mind my asking - where are you from? And btw, you should have just come straight to the South Island of NZ, that's much nicer than Ozi ;)
Hmm, yes I plan to put some more time into the blog and I'm going to be giving my talk on Scala next week at the Auckland JUG which I'm quite looking forward to - I'm on after Ben from Spring :) I suppose - I guess smaller gigs wouldn't have the same issues large corporate development has eh? That's the cool thing about OSS eh? You can telecommute from anywhere in the world! The other reason I want to go o/s is to be closer to where all the action is. We get zero conferences in NZ! Eelco Hillenius wrote: > >> Let's say, hypothetically, I to quit my job at IBM NZ and work on a >> couple of >> open source projects full time, Wicket being one of them and Maven >> another, >> while I travelled around the world... >> We have a tradition in NZ called and OE - >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_experience > > I tried that in Australia. Been there for about 5 months, 3 of which I > lived in Melbourne trying to get a job. I didn't succeed in getting > one because I was ill prepared. The market was bad at that time, I > didn't have that much experience yet, and I didn't have much of a > position for temp jobs. Oh, and I didn't have a laptop either at that > time. I did however have a good time, and don't feel sorry for trying > :-) > > I think the way to do it is to start out as an independent contractor > and go from there. Build up your network, and when the chance is > there, do gigs abroad. These times where open source is huge, everyone > hooked up on the internet and stuff makes things easier as well. > > It would be a good idea to start a project that displays your skills > (see e.g. Wicket RAD/ webbeans, databinder or any of the wicket-stuff > projects), work on your blog, see if you can give talks, etc. > > FWIW, if I were an independent (and single!) contractor, I'd try to > divide my time between awesome beaches and the coolest cities around > the world. But that's up to you :-) > > Eelco > > ----- ___________________________ http://stubbisms.wordpress.com http://stubbisms.wordpress.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Quit-IBM-NZ-and-work-on-OSS-full-time--tp17718343p17723574.html Sent from the Wicket - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
