Jul-07-2022, 11:46 PM
I've now decided to devote all my free time towards getting a job as a programmer. I currently work in a hotel. But I'm wondering if I should devote 25% of my free time towards getting a job and 75% of my free time towards getting new skills or do I have enough skills to start applying. Here's the basics, I've calculated 9600 hours spent coding over an 8 year period, 90% of which was devoted to Python, the other 9% was devoted to VBA for Excel and the other 1% to other languages. I've uploaded 4 projects to Github, one of them is solid code, it analyzes the Latin language. Another code was actually rather amazing, it calculates the consistency of natural language sentences, but I stopped working on it 3 years ago and I can't get it work now, so it's pretty hard to raise eyebrows when you say, yea, I still have the inputs and outputs to this amazing code I once wrote but I can't get it to work now.
My problem is that since I've mostly worked by myself on projects of an academic nature such as philosophical logic and the processing of foreign and ancient languages that I don't have the typical marketable skills such as knowledge of MySQL, numpy, pandas, flask, django, java, javascript, AWS.
I'd say I have about 200 hours experience with Google Cloud. I've been on the job market for 3 days now and have gotten 4 emails from American recruiters and of course lots from Indian recruiters, though from what I've read an email from an Indian recruiter means nothing, but I have not been able to get an interview from any of the 4 American recruiters.
I want to use my time wisely and if it turns out that no one will hire someone whose only skill is Python and maybe a little bit of Cloud, then I need to know that and devote more time to getting more skills.
You can take a look at my resume below.
My problem is that since I've mostly worked by myself on projects of an academic nature such as philosophical logic and the processing of foreign and ancient languages that I don't have the typical marketable skills such as knowledge of MySQL, numpy, pandas, flask, django, java, javascript, AWS.
I'd say I have about 200 hours experience with Google Cloud. I've been on the job market for 3 days now and have gotten 4 emails from American recruiters and of course lots from Indian recruiters, though from what I've read an email from an Indian recruiter means nothing, but I have not been able to get an interview from any of the 4 American recruiters.
I want to use my time wisely and if it turns out that no one will hire someone whose only skill is Python and maybe a little bit of Cloud, then I need to know that and devote more time to getting more skills.
You can take a look at my resume below.
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