It sounds like you're off to a great start. One thing that really launched my career off was finding a company and asking to be an unpaid intern. I got in there, showed some dedication and interest in what I was doing and they wound up paying me anyway. Point is, showing a genuine interest and willingness to learn will get you far.
At the moment in Melbourne (and I suspect all of Australia) there is a massive shortage in good talent, so come along to the Roro meetups / trampoline meetups and jelly meetups and I'm sure you will find some people in need of developers. Do you have a portfolio site or Github account? It's always worth passing that around. Finally, I'm working on a product which is designed to put high quality freelancers in touch with digital agencies and development houses in Melbourne. If you wanted to contact me off list with some details about what you've worked on then I might be able to help out with getting your name around. Samuel Richardson www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Vincent Bonmalais <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently looking for any kind of information or help to succeed in my > (crazy) attempt to become a RoR Junior Developer in Australia (FYI, the * > crazy* part will be explained very soon). > > *Context:* > * > * > I have 2 years experience in CakePHP / ExtJS, a Master in Computer > Science, and a good experience with testing using Rspec/Selenium and > deployment using Capistrano. It's just been a few months since I actively > try to work my way around Ruby on Rails. Which means I'm reading a lot, and > making a lot of test code/projects. > > No fancy professional rails app running out there, and no outstanding > participation in the open source community yet. > > To top it all, I am currently not in Australia... I'm a bit of a * > free-man-soul-who-can-live-wherever-there-is-food...* I happen to have > already moved outside of my home country (Reunion Island [France] => > Montreal [Canada]) and plan on doing the same once again, which means > moving to Australia pretty soon. (so yes, I speak "*le" *french as a > native language) > > *What I want is:* > > - Finding a job ;)? I would gladly accept any offer (if any), but this is > not the main goal of me making this thread. I am truthfully more interested > in *finding out what have made you* *a competent, funny-to-speak-with > developer*. > > - As I heard, there is a *mentorship* program going on out there. I sure > would like to spam all of you with stupid questions, but I would vaguely > prefer if somebody would be interested in teaching me first. Who knows? > Maybe I have something interesting to teach you too. Need a french native > speaker to discuss with or learn the language? Have a problem on a legacy > PHP or CakePHP project? Just ask. (*island spicy > cooking<https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reunion+island+dishes&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1279&bih=616&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=e--5T8GRI8f1sgbot4iJCA#um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=reunion+island+cooking&oq=reunion+island+cooking&aq=f&aqi=g-S1&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0i24.3933.5035.0.5281.8.5.0.3.3.1.375.970.2-2j1.3.0...0.0.naUypHWJYiY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=8e6fe5fadaef54de&biw=1279&bih=616> > * is still on top of the list though). > > - *Participating in the open source community*. I read pull requests and > issues on a daily basis on Rails <https://github.com/rails/rails/pulls>, > but happen to not have the skill to propose anything yet. Maybe you need > help on a github project, or have a nice starting point where a junior can > place his efforts. > > - Any plan which makes the difference. I've already looked around and read > quite a few tutorials / books on various subjects, which goes from > CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Mobile Programming, Flexible design... > To Cucumber, Rspec, Rails Best Practices* *(Thanks Code School...), etc. > So maybe you want to add something here, which will really make the > difference, which you hoped you'd knew sooner, *an advice or a few > words*which changed your ruby developer's life. > > - Also, *making friends* would be a great starting point too ! :) (that > actually may be the most important point during my trip...) > > Thanks for reading and have a nice day! > -- > Vincent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/xGbRACCutFEJ. > 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
