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Previously on "Networking at pubs?"
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostIf only other posters here displayed such a level of self awareness.
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I have also done both contracting and perm work, so I'm familiar with both. I've gone the LTD (this was very scary for me thrown in the deep end, looking back) and also Umbrella route - but last couple years it's been perm. I'm currently applying for other roles. Most of my roles have been as senior PHP dev (APIs and back-end focused apps usually).
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Originally posted by Paralytic View PostYou're over 6 months too early.
And it look like the main skill you've learned in that time is making coffee.
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Originally posted by edison View PostSo what have you done in the seven years since you last posted on this thread??
- Setting up servers from scratch on cloud infrastructure platforms e.g. Digital Ocean (also some AWS). CDNs, firewalls, managed DB cluster, backups etc.
- Using CI tools e.g. CircleCI to setup build pipelines and automate deployments i.e. PRs on branches of GitHub repos trigger web hook to Slack channel notification and also deploy the code to the servers.
- Repeat above process for development environment and production environment
- PHP frameworks, e.g. Laravel, API development, back-end work, JWT, OAuth 2 etc.
- MySQL databases, managed DB cluster
- Some javascript and libraries e.g. VueJS and Angular, but I hate front-end work...
I wanna get into AWS more, terraform, cloud formation, Ansible etc. so that I can just save time and automate the whole damn thing because it's very tedious managing servers and spinning up new ones and configuring them.
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Originally posted by eek View PostWhat it means is that in professional forums we are polite and (usually) helpful.
General is where we kill time posting rubbish or taking the Mickey out of each other. We don't need to be polite so I can call Someone a clueless wet behind the ears useless wannabe f**kwit if I want to.
Kurzon you are a clueless wet behind the ears useless wannabe f**kwit.
Now go and use milkround and other similar sites build up a cv with a few success stories and come back here in 8 years when you can walk the walk and have a reputation that proves it
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Originally posted by Kurzon View PostAre you trying to say that job seekers fall into the traps of agents who are only in it for themselves? And contractors bypass all of that?
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I was offered my best ever gig in a pub. Top dollar and the agent bought me beer till three in the morning, then back to mine till I fell asleep on the couch
When I woke up he was gone, never heard about the gig again and he still owes me £50. Plus I must have had a dodgy pint because my @rse was killing me for a week afterwards...still never mind, no one said networking in pubs was going to be easy
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI got my best ever gig in a pub. I just bumped into someone who I had worked with before and said "we are looking for a guy with your skills - how much does it take to get you out of your current gig?".
Originally posted by eek View PostWhat it means is that in professional forums we are polite and (usually) helpful.
General is where we kill time posting rubbish or taking the Mickey out of each other. We don't need to be polite so I can call Someone a clueless wet behind the ears useless wannabe f**kwit if I want to.
Kurzon you are a clueless wet behind the ears useless wannabe f**kwit.
Now go and use milkround and other similar sites build up a cv with a few success stories and come back here in 8 years when you can walk the walk and have a reputation that proves it
I completely forgot about Milkround!
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