I posted a question in here a year or so back. i just came back to many great answers. but some said that remote work is still not the norm in the industry. I liv ein a very rural area, moving is not an option. So maybe this idea for employment is now super unrealistic. i live in Postdam new york. there doesnt seem to be much in the way of computer programming or network type of stuff. whats everyones opinion on this?
Seems there are several software-related jobs in your area according to Indeed. If you’re rural and not willing to relocate, you probably want to get a car if you don’t have one.
i did see those. but what happens after i dont get hired for the 5 jobs available? i guess i just want a better sense of what i COULD do remotely without a shit ton of skill, yah know? where are these jobs, what are they? something if invest a 30 hour week on for the next 6 months, where could i be?
What are the most typical jobs with the highest demand which has you working remotely? like, Google has some kind of tech support, and you do it from home. I just dont have any idea. in what category of tech do the majority of these jobs exist?
Just Google “remote tech jobs” there are tons of 6 figure USD tech jobs in various department of IT. You can as well search in twitter.
You can live and earn this salary; working from anywhere in the world.
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Tech companies are pushing hard for people to come back into the office at least a few days a week. If you can’t find someone to hire you remotely, you always have the choice to set up your own business making websites, app, etc.
We are in the same time zone - I’m in Philly. I have been trying for a long time to get a job with no success. Do you have a portfolio page or projects on GitHub? Post links to them if you do. Where do you search for jobs? I got a reply from a YT channel owner about jobs and how he never got a job from a job board but only from either open-source contributing or by knowing someone.
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thanks for your candid answer! while not encouraging, its real. theres just so much to know, and to then ALSO be good at it? theres plenty of jobs where you can fake your way thru, say you know things you dont (liberal arts anyone lol). this isnt one of them . theres nothing straight forward about any of this. the real hard facts is i stood have started a couple years back when i first posted, a post not too different than this one. can i dedicate 30 hours a week for a year, and even then may not be up to speed. Hell, i do BJJ once a week for years now and i still dont have my blue belt. this is something you get in 6 months to a year. sooner if your talented. i fear this will be no different. im rambling now, thanks for your response you seem like my kind of dude, just alot more disciplined and ambitious than me.
I forgot to mention that my goal is to get a remote job and move to a rural area. So you do not have a portfolio or any GitHub repositories? I figured we are in the same time zone so helping each other out wouldn’t be easier.
Most people in the IT sphere I know personally work exactly remotely. Moreover, some of them chose this career path exactly because of this opportunity. You can work for a large company and make good money working not only from home, but from any place in the world. This is why a lot of developers, web designers, etc. have the posiblity to travel more often than people who work at the office.
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I would say if you haven’t had a software job before and are just starting out, living in a rural area can be limiting, but it not necessarily. I lived in a moderately well-known city that did not have much to offer in the tech field so I moved to one of the more bigger city when I was younger to get the experience and mostly find ways to position myself for any jobs that would get me industry cred while trying to survive. The pandemic definitely sped things up for remote-work, but prior to that I worked on very shoestring budget freelance gigs from Wix sites to WordPress jobs remotely. By the time COVID struck, my main side job went remote and most companies did too with some companies switching their whole model to remote-first as well which I found one and work there this today.
But that is one path and relatively based mostly on luck, however if this is the line of thinking you are considering I would say you should first get the cred and skill and focus on building your network of people in the tech sector like meetups and regional online groups though you’d need a car for the in-person events in this case or rely on the bus/Amtrak/Uber without one. I would recommend you think of your rural environment as an advantage. It is likely the cost of living in lower than the city, which means you have a wider pool of jobs/contracts that you could aim for that pay less than I could take up. In addition, you should try to apply for remote positions across the states. I have co-workers that applied from Arizona, Indiana, California, Florida, and New Jersey and they all work for a small company based in Philly. I would say the more you can build your network online and offline, the more likely you will be able to snag a remote job, but you may have to be relentless and make that your priority over pay and work for different cities. Best of luck @bmc
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So are meetups and other groups how you would primarily do that? I’m in the suburbs of Philly and there is nothing near me unless there are meetups in Philly. I make at most $120 per week and sometimes only $60. I meticulously watch my money and gas for the car is one thing I worry about. But if that is the ONLY way to make connections, then I guess that’s what I will do. I personally do not even look at job boards anymore. I’m currently in the process of creating “gigs” on Fiverr.
That is not the only way to make connections.
Thanks to the pandemic, there were a lot of online groups that popped up and still active today.
I would highly suggest joining Danny Thompson’s discord channel if you haven’t done so already
He has helped a lot of self taught people land jobs, and he has a really active community behind him.
The community can help you with resumes, linkedin profiles, networking, etc.
Hope that helps! 
Oops is that link to Danny Thompson’s thing you mentioned?
Is that discord server Danny Thompson’s?
Yeah, he has a discord community where he helps self taught developers.
He also does twitter spaces about jobs and learning.
So basically, most of his content is geared towards helping developers
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