And if you're trying to find work, in my experience a project on GitHub will likely be noticed. I got a couple of feelers from this one:
https://github.com/walthaas/civi2salsa One hiring manager was basically cruising GitHub looking for talent and expressed interest in my work. Also, Salsa Labs, the target of the data migration, was interested in an arrangement with me. I said "Thanks but no thanks, I'm retired and only doing pro bono projects for non-profits". At the moment I'm writing an HTML5 app for <canvas>. Turns out I'm finding a lot of subtle differences between JavaScript and PHP5. It's been quite a learning experience. -- Walt On 03/26/2014 11:11 AM, Walt Haas wrote: > My own rule of thumb is that only the last five years, at most, of my > experience counts. I say that after almost 50 years of experience. > > -- Walt > > On 03/26/2014 11:02 AM, Timothy Humphrey wrote: >> Hey Jonathan. >> >> I've only hired a dozen or so folks in my day, so I may be way off base here. >> >> I would see your 8yrs as trumping the need for a degree, but also probably >> being a bit of a drawback. I would think you were probably engrained in how >> you do things, and what solutions you would bring to the table. During the >> interview, I would look and listen hard for you to prove to me that you can >> think outside that 8yr box. The concern would be that this new hire would >> try to convert my department/division into their old job. >> >> If that rings true on your end, may I suggest hitting github or bitbucket >> for some projects that interest you, but are also way off that 8yr beaten >> path. Pull the source code, study, build something with them, contribute to >> them, etc. Then in the interview, talk that stuff up as-much-as/more-than >> the 8yr job. The 8yrs speak for themselves, in my opinion. >> >> Thanks. >> - Timothy Humphrey > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
