Hi Oceania, my name's Ryan – long time lurker, first time poster. I've just 'graduated' from Sydney's General Assembly Web Development Immersive course <https://generalassemb.ly/education/web-development-immersive>and am about to step out into the cold hard world of employment seeking as a junior full-stack developer <http://mendokusai.github.io>. Unlike the grand majority of GA graduates, I'm leaving the happy hunting ground of Sydney and heading down to Canberra where rails is... less than bountiful. <https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Australian-Companies-using-Ruby-on-Rails>
I've posted on Canberra's Ruby Community Site, hoping to start up conversation and potentially renew interest in a meetup ( which I will now, unofficially, hold myself at the beginning of March ), but there hasn't been much conversation besides a few tips. One of which was to seek out remote work. I'm very curious about this as remote work is my holy grail - working somewhere from somewhere else without pants? *Fantastic*. Still, as I'm fresh out of my bootcamp, filled with ideas, optimism and partial understandings of partials, I wonder if remote-out-of-the-gates is a viable option *or* whether I should really be focusing on in-house work at this point, since there's still so much (oh so much) that I need to learn from you elder wizards before I can accurately consider myself viable for remote working. And why Canberra you ask? Why else: family. Anyway it's a fine town – good bike trails at the very least. I retort, *perhaps* Sydney has *too much* culture, community, opportunity... okay, I'll just stop. Anyway, I'd appreciate any and all sagely advice on the topic. Thanks for your help obi wans, you're [not actually] my *only* hope [but I appreciate your advice]! <http://cdn.hellogiggles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/06/tumblr_mwmqldejsO1qeliv2o1_500.gif> -Ryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
