I started freelancing earlier this year with the job market being a bit rough so I wanted to build up my own experience. Projects with people and helping them solve their issues has been a very fun experience! Projects that are considered for myself are to solve my own problems like this curation of 3D design and development website I'm currently making. I feel like those kinds of work are more tangible to talk about. I originally started with Webflow and have migrated for front-end development. Glad to have found your channel and I appreciate you talking about these kinds of topics / keeping it real. Cheers Paul!
Honestly, I lost all ambition to become a dev. Imma go back to the simple things in life, and become a shepherd soon. The community, the companies, it all resembles sausage factories. Not with me, imma have my sheep and code for FUN! Thanks and bye.
Hey. Thanks for the great content. I have a desktop app that has about 140 stars on github and total 5k downloads. It's a download manager I've been maintaining for more than a year now and it's a passion project of mine. I was wondering if in your opinion such a project could make my resume stand out. The thing is, I'm a backend developer. So do you think applying for jobs that don't really use the tech stack that I used to build my app is gonna diminish the value of my project in the recruiter's eyes? I would love to know your opinion. Thanks!
I don't think it is going to diminish your resume. It sounds like you built a great project. What I would do, when talking about it in your resume, specify the challenges you had and how you solved them in your code. To showcase your expertise and coding knowledge.
I understand "Build something that solves one of your problem, think it as a product" but I am interest what would someone in Data Engineer or Data Scientist path would do ? Does these advice work for them too
I am not in data science so not sure of my answer will be valid. But what I would work on is either creating tools that help companies identify useful data, working on data visualization or reporting tools.
yooooooooo, whats up with your youtube > text highlights application? I love this idea, as a video editor I can definitely use this. Currently my editing software can only turns the video into text but I would like it to be interactive if I can ask it questions.
I had to put that idea on hold for now. But there is already an editor that allows you to do that. I used both those features in two different apps. Descriptor, and Resolve 19. Both work similarly, they allow you to edit video by editing the transcript.
Yeah, I am using openAI paid version. But I only have 10 dollars limit on my account. And have not got over it on month to month basis yet. I was going to try to run olama locally and just point to that. But haven't gotten to that point yet.
@@CodingAfterThirty yeah that's the thing I worry about openai is that if lots of users start using the app then it would get expensive, then you'd have to start charging them and you'd have a proper business 😁
I'm sure this is good advice but if you're in the West you can't get a job because the market is flooded and companies are moving their work to cheaper countries. The last two companies I worked with had long hiring freezes in the US but were expanding in India.
Yeah, the job market is tough, but not impossible. I live in the us. I heard pros and cons about working with cheaper labor, but there are actually not that many companies that are doing it-at least not for their whole teams. There is definitely a trade-off. I go to a lot of meetups and have friends who have been laid off, but they were able to eventually ger rehired. In my mind, I want to keep being job ready, but also try to build my own thing. So eventually be able to diversify my skills to be able to either get a job or be self-employed
And it may not be helping. I still think building project is good for learning, but I think building projects ( products ) with a purpose is the way to go.
@@CodingAfterThirty exactly my thoughts. also what was not included in the video is maybe your specific project might become your own business. (best scenario and would be #1 in the list)
I started freelancing earlier this year with the job market being a bit rough so I wanted to build up my own experience. Projects with people and helping them solve their issues has been a very fun experience! Projects that are considered for myself are to solve my own problems like this curation of 3D design and development website I'm currently making. I feel like those kinds of work are more tangible to talk about.
I originally started with Webflow and have migrated for front-end development. Glad to have found your channel and I appreciate you talking about these kinds of topics / keeping it real. Cheers Paul!
Thank you so much, glad to have you here 🙂
Honestly, I lost all ambition to become a dev. Imma go back to the simple things in life, and become a shepherd soon. The community, the companies, it all resembles sausage factories. Not with me, imma have my sheep and code for FUN! Thanks and bye.
Coding for fun and being a shepherd sounds fun.
I wish I could simplify my life too, not stress too much about life, and just enjoy the simple things.
Well said my friend!
Thank for checking out the video.
Hey. Thanks for the great content.
I have a desktop app that has about 140 stars on github and total 5k downloads. It's a download manager I've been maintaining for more than a year now and it's a passion project of mine. I was wondering if in your opinion such a project could make my resume stand out. The thing is, I'm a backend developer. So do you think applying for jobs that don't really use the tech stack that I used to build my app is gonna diminish the value of my project in the recruiter's eyes?
I would love to know your opinion. Thanks!
I don't think it is going to diminish your resume. It sounds like you built a great project.
What I would do, when talking about it in your resume, specify the challenges you had and how you solved them in your code. To showcase your expertise and coding knowledge.
I understand "Build something that solves one of your problem, think it as a product" but I am interest what would someone in Data Engineer or Data Scientist path would do ?
Does these advice work for them too
I am not in data science so not sure of my answer will be valid.
But what I would work on is either creating tools that help companies identify useful data, working on data visualization or reporting tools.
You're a dummy and not in data engineering if you're asking this
yooooooooo, whats up with your youtube > text highlights application? I love this idea, as a video editor I can definitely use this. Currently my editing software can only turns the video into text but I would like it to be interactive if I can ask it questions.
I had to put that idea on hold for now. But there is already an editor that allows you to do that. I used both those features in two different apps. Descriptor, and Resolve 19.
Both work similarly, they allow you to edit video by editing the transcript.
the summaize app is super useful. Are you paying for the openAI API?
Yeah, I am using openAI paid version. But I only have 10 dollars limit on my account. And have not got over it on month to month basis yet. I was going to try to run olama locally and just point to that. But haven't gotten to that point yet.
@@CodingAfterThirty yeah that's the thing I worry about openai is that if lots of users start using the app then it would get expensive, then you'd have to start charging them and you'd have a proper business 😁
This is Remix, NOT Next!
Yes, it is all remix.
I'm sure this is good advice but if you're in the West you can't get a job because the market is flooded and companies are moving their work to cheaper countries. The last two companies I worked with had long hiring freezes in the US but were expanding in India.
Yeah, the job market is tough, but not impossible. I live in the us.
I heard pros and cons about working with cheaper labor, but there are actually not that many companies that are doing it-at least not for their whole teams.
There is definitely a trade-off. I go to a lot of meetups and have friends who have been laid off, but they were able to eventually ger rehired.
In my mind, I want to keep being job ready, but also try to build my own thing.
So eventually be able to diversify my skills to be able to either get a job or be self-employed
everyone is making projects now
And it may not be helping. I still think building project is good for learning, but I think building projects ( products ) with a purpose is the way to go.
@@CodingAfterThirty exactly my thoughts. also what was not included in the video is maybe your specific project might become your own business. (best scenario and would be #1 in the list)
@@cant_sleeeep yes, 100 percent agree with you. BTW thank you for checking out the video and commenting. 🙂
@@CodingAfterThirty thanks for discussion 👏🏻