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Ask HN: 100% Remote as Beginner?

by andrewHN_ on 4/2/20, 5:36 PM with 3 comments

Hey HN community,

my plan is, to get a job as programmer to work 100% remote (i want to move to another country). I just would like to hear your opinion, if my plan is very utopian, or possible at all.

Actually i work in Germany and have about 1 year experience as a web developer (perl, a bit JS). I'm getting into Python now, because there aren't much perl jobs out there.

So in about 1 year, i'll try to get a remote job, but i don't see me being successfully in it. What do you think are my chances?

For my little experience, i am not too bad imho.

Thank you very much for your answers

  • by leifg on 4/2/20, 5:56 PM

    From my experience living in Asia and Europe I found it very hard to get a remote job (and I am freelancing with 11 years of experience). I had some remote positions but they always started out as being on site.

    This aligns with anecdotes from friends and colleagues. Start working on site, show your worth go remote seems to be the sneaky way how a lot of people made the getting a remote job happening.

    I recently moved to the US and I found US clients (or employers) are a lot more willing to hire someone remote. So your mileage may vary where you are.