What kind of job should i look for (PHP developer)?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:20 am
Hello!
Im in a bit of a crossroads in my life and i could use some tips on what kind of job and where should i look for. I really need some fixed montly pay work within next few months.
**My skills**
I am 100% self taught and i believe i am petty good at php, mysqli, js/jquery and html but i am not very good at designing. I just dont have talent for it but i believe i have talent for coding. It is also my hobby and dream job so i love learning new stuff and ways to code better. I have never used any CMS or software to create sites, just Notepad+, SublimeText. For last few years i have been using a lot of Bootstrap and i learned a lot about responsive design. I am dependable, honest and hard working.
**What i have tried**
I have tried to find work from freelancer.com but most projects need professional design skills. I only found few low pay projects that needed my skills without designing. I have tried creating websites in hope of earning ad revenue and i am earning some income from that but it is not enough anymore. I also tried to work with a designer on a project that has potential of income in future but lately the designers life is too busy to work on it and i really need income soon. I have tried to check out other php devoloper job offers but almost all of them require good skills on cms or other software i have never even heard of. I am willing to learn but i cant get good skills on it in few months.
**Motivation**
The fixed income i am looking for is for is for my 2 daughters so i am very motivated to find it. i am willing to do anything to get good coding work, even part time, at least 500 euros per month.
**Backup**
Obviously i have thought a backup and i will find a work on some other field but since i have most experience with coding i probably dont earn much from other work.
**Portfolio**
I have only some websites up and running that i have created and designed but since i am not designer the websites dont have good enough designes to put them on portfolio. Not sure how creating portfolio works with php code.
**Something about me**
I actually wanted to go to school to learn programming when i was young but didnt because i wanted to not sit in front of pc every day for the rest of my life. As time went by I never found anything else i loved doing as much i love coding. Its now actually my dream job. I learned most of it while building many different websites for my own purpose and for friends and family. Some of them took off and has some user base, most didnt. Then i got a job at an excavation site as a "person who keeps track all materials going out and produced" and i had to do it all with pen and paper
Later i brough my own old pc to job and used excel. Getting numbers right was time consuming and prone to mistakes. So i ended up developing advanced system to track everything and create totals and other statistics. I worked there for a year. They use it still after 5 years and i am sometimes hired to update it. After that i moved to city and now i have family and the ad revenue and occasional freelance work just is not enough.
**All ideas, suggestions, thoughts are welcome!**
Im in a bit of a crossroads in my life and i could use some tips on what kind of job and where should i look for. I really need some fixed montly pay work within next few months.
**My skills**
I am 100% self taught and i believe i am petty good at php, mysqli, js/jquery and html but i am not very good at designing. I just dont have talent for it but i believe i have talent for coding. It is also my hobby and dream job so i love learning new stuff and ways to code better. I have never used any CMS or software to create sites, just Notepad+, SublimeText. For last few years i have been using a lot of Bootstrap and i learned a lot about responsive design. I am dependable, honest and hard working.
**What i have tried**
I have tried to find work from freelancer.com but most projects need professional design skills. I only found few low pay projects that needed my skills without designing. I have tried creating websites in hope of earning ad revenue and i am earning some income from that but it is not enough anymore. I also tried to work with a designer on a project that has potential of income in future but lately the designers life is too busy to work on it and i really need income soon. I have tried to check out other php devoloper job offers but almost all of them require good skills on cms or other software i have never even heard of. I am willing to learn but i cant get good skills on it in few months.
**Motivation**
The fixed income i am looking for is for is for my 2 daughters so i am very motivated to find it. i am willing to do anything to get good coding work, even part time, at least 500 euros per month.
**Backup**
Obviously i have thought a backup and i will find a work on some other field but since i have most experience with coding i probably dont earn much from other work.
**Portfolio**
I have only some websites up and running that i have created and designed but since i am not designer the websites dont have good enough designes to put them on portfolio. Not sure how creating portfolio works with php code.
**Something about me**
I actually wanted to go to school to learn programming when i was young but didnt because i wanted to not sit in front of pc every day for the rest of my life. As time went by I never found anything else i loved doing as much i love coding. Its now actually my dream job. I learned most of it while building many different websites for my own purpose and for friends and family. Some of them took off and has some user base, most didnt. Then i got a job at an excavation site as a "person who keeps track all materials going out and produced" and i had to do it all with pen and paper
**All ideas, suggestions, thoughts are welcome!**