Beginner dumb questions related to job search

[Nata444]

Posted this in the wrong forum, sorry. Don't see how to delete it.

Hi, all,

This will be a weird post but I'm really hoping to get answers.

So, I need to find a good job in USA that would allow me to work from Russia. I'm a US citizen, I just want to live here.

My specialty is vba, MS Access and oracle, 20 years. Access is looked at as a joke in the computer world but I've created some impressive stuff with it. I automate complex reports with it and create apps packed with functionality.
I've never learned anything else because I never needed to, I've been able to accomplish everything i need using the 3 above.

But I'm now trying to find a job (my current job allowed me to move for 3 years but now they said I have to go back to USA, I don't want to), within the next 5 months.
I sent a bunch of resumes and I got very little interest and the little bit I got isn't interested once they hear of Russia.

I know for sure that there's a ton of programmers working from wherever but I'm assuming that's because their skillset is much more impressive than mine.

Once I'm hired, my worth is quickly proven. My job allows me total flexibility schedule wise, they allowed the move to Russia as a huge exception to policy and gave me many other perks. And this happened because they saw what I'm capable of.

But I have a huge problem selling my skillset, either I don't know how to sell it or because of the programming languages I use.

I often see python as a requirement on the jobs I apply to.

My main question for those that know it and have gotten good jobs with it. Will python allow me to easily find an employer that will entertain Russia? Meaning, do you often have employers telling you that you can work from anywhere in the world?

I'm assuming that I will need to learn something else to go with it (that will be my other question and a few more, technical ones, if someone confirms that I'm right that learning it will help me out)

[jefsummers]

Indeed this thread may move to the Jobs forum, but will leave that to the admins

Working from Russia will be a problem, as right or wrong there are trust issues. Python is a hot language but there are lots of people that us it, so you will have competition, and you are shooting yourself in the foot by being an American in Russia. If you go this route, get comfortable with Pandas, one of the GUI approaches (whether by web or by desktop GUI), and get some experience volunteering for projects that you can then leverage for a job.

Alternative - learn a legacy language and work on legacy systems - COBOL, Fortran, etc. Problem is that a bank is less likely to hire you from Russia.

[Nata444]

Indeed this thread may move to the Jobs forum, but will leave that to the admins

Working from Russia will be a problem, as right or wrong there are trust issues. Python is a hot language but there are lots of people that us it, so you will have competition, and you are shooting yourself in the foot by being an American in Russia. If you go this route, get comfortable with Pandas, one of the GUI approaches (whether by web or by desktop GUI), and get some experience volunteering for projects that you can then leverage for a job.

Alternative - learn a legacy language and work on legacy systems - COBOL, Fortran, etc. Problem is that a bank is less likely to hire you from Russia.

I know. My current job is hoping I forget this whole thing lol and move back. But I want to live here.

Yep, banks will not go for that.
But I know that there is a ton of programmers working from overseas, what do they code in?
I watched a tutorial and python is so cool, compared to vba, so much lighter and easier, takes 2 lines to write something that would take 5 in vba. And I'm only at the beginning. I'm sure there are so many more revelations to come.
I like creating apps and automating, that's what I'm good at and that's what I'm hoping to be doing.
No chance?
I dont know cobol but isn't that the boring black and white old stuff lol? Mainframes, etc?
And pandas I've heard about, will check it out. What makes you think that there's a chance with that?

[Nata444]

I went on some website to see what they're looking for to get remote out of country jobs, here's a screenshot from 1 website

Which would be closest to automating and apps?
I just hate to waste my skills and go to something completely different, I'd like to stay closer to what I'm doing currently.
I'm really good at automation, meaning, the ability to find the least taxing way to do something (the least number of clicks and thinking required of the end user) and then coding it.
And I'm really good with relational databases, also built many.
And designing the front end. I suck at making it pretty, my apps are pretty ugly, but they're packed with functions and are very thought out.
What in the screenshot would be the closest to all that?
screenshot

[jefsummers]

Not going to look at a screenshot link.

Python has great facilities for accessing relational databases.

Gotta ask - what (or who) is keeping you in Russia?

[Nata444]

how do i attach it? i didn't see any options for attaching or embedding it

this isn't working, not sure how else to do it
here's the full link, it's saved on my acct on OneDrive
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AN...04&o=OneUp
i guess, might as well type it out

react+node (36 jobs)
react+backend (24)
react+frontend (24)
react native (33)
ruby on rails full stack (28)
ruby on rails backend (24)
python (django) (27)
python+react (23)
python (flask, vue, angular) (20)
python (backend) (19)
java (frontend) (26)
angular+backend (25)
php+lavarel (25)
data engineering+python (8)
there are a few more but they don't sound interesting or have less than 10 jobs, don't feel like typing them :)

also, i decided to go with python anyway, i like the language, it's so economical and cool. so, i guess, i'm only interested in what's in bold above. so, which is closer to databases, automation and apps?
and i'm lost on what to start with. pyCharm, i guess, but what do i use to design forms and stuff? there's so many options, google seems to suggest pySimpleGUI.
what do you think?
you mentioned Pandas before, is that the same as pySimpleGUI, meaning, do they both do the same thing, design apps? or, is Pandas a separate alltogether thing?

and what do you mean by "great facilities to access relational databases"? odbc or is there something else on top of it?
and i'm glad to hear, i love the relational db structure, it's weirdly satisfying to me. such a clean way to setup a database.
i have a ton of access projects at work that i can convert and use as a learning tool. i learn best this way: just start and figure it out as i go, but i need to know which apps to use :) i'm in a time crunch, can't afford to try and error for 5 years, like i did with vba.

what's keeping me in russia?
i was born and raised here and always missed it and 3 years ago decided to move. i like it here and i've had enough of USA for a little while :) maybe later i will go back, but not yet.