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  • MrGeneral said: I had opportunities to travel to London and get a job there. But... I love Portugal too much and due to health issues I cannot travel that far. DevOp is something I love to do.

    I don't blame you, London's fucking horrible.

    We just brought a guy over from Brazil, and he lived in London for 2 weeks before moving up to Sheffield where he's going to be based permanently. After initially being a bit apprehensive, he absolutely loves Sheffield. Everyone's so much friendlier, the pubs and restaurants are so much cheaper, and there are (apparently) lots more people on Tinder...

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    BradND said: Your LinkedIn profile screams desperation, just thought you'd like to know.

    It's the Grindr item, isn't it...

    Actually, I didn't get "desperation" from Miguel's profile as much as "young".

    @MrGeneral, my advice is to rewrite your profile so that it sounds more like you're an accomplished professional who's moving from one gig to the next. Saying you learned cpanel when you were 14 or what OS you installed when you were a kid sounds very amateurish (no offense, just trying to help). The intro paragraph should answer the question "how do I fit into IT organizations" or "I am this kind of worker for this kind of job" or "my career focus is X".

    Usual advice for job history is the classic "action" formula: "there was this problem, I did this awesome thing, then this fantastic result happened because of it". "Supported managed/VPS customers" is so vague I don't even know what that means...you reset passwords and told them how to pick a Wordpress theme, or you compiled PHP modules for them and wrote firewall rules? Etc.

    It never hurts to invest an hour or two looking at LinkedIn to find some great profiles, then copy the style.

    That said, I'm not sure if Linkedin is going to be what gets you a job, but it's handy to have as a "business card" in the sense that it can be on your resume and you can point prospective employers at it.

    Just advice.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Falzo said:

    @MrGeneral said:

    @BradND said:
    Your LinkedIn profile screams desperation, just thought you'd like to know.

    But good luck all the same, the market for DevOps seems to be picking up right now.

    Thank you for your opinion @Brad, what would you change in my profile? I mean, what's giving you the impression that I'm desperate? (Although I am, but my LinkedIn hasn't been edited lately)

    cut that crap:

    I'm 25 years old ...

    I have been working in the Webhosting industry for about 12 years.

    nobody is gonna deny that you might be addicted to IT stuff from back then, and might have earned some bucks by doing stuff, but "working in the industry" ... aged 13? seriously?

    that is a lot of overestimating yourself I'd say ;-) or you've really been j. nuggets back then? guess you wouldn't want to be in the same category like him, would you?

    Not at all! But I understand what you mean. Thing is, I started selling webhosting accounts back in 2013 / 2014, seriously, hehe. It allowed me to buy what I needed. Teenager stuff. I'll redact that, and I appreciate your input!

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Nekki said:

    MrGeneral said: I had opportunities to travel to London and get a job there. But... I love Portugal too much and due to health issues I cannot travel that far. DevOp is something I love to do.

    I don't blame you, London's fucking horrible.

    We just brought a guy over from Brazil, and he lived in London for 2 weeks before moving up to Sheffield where he's going to be based permanently. After initially being a bit apprehensive, he absolutely loves Sheffield. Everyone's so much friendlier, the pubs and restaurants are so much cheaper, and there are (apparently) lots more people on Tinder...

    The last part of your comment is hilarious :P.
    As for UK, well, I do have family and friends in London. They love it, but the weather would kill me hehehe. It's also expensive. Travelling to London is ok if, for example, a DC hires me to setup a few racks. That'd be OK.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @raindog308 said:

    BradND said: Your LinkedIn profile screams desperation, just thought you'd like to know.

    It's the Grindr item, isn't it...

    Actually, I didn't get "desperation" from Miguel's profile as much as "young".

    @MrGeneral, my advice is to rewrite your profile so that it sounds more like you're an accomplished professional who's moving from one gig to the next. Saying you learned cpanel when you were 14 or what OS you installed when you were a kid sounds very amateurish (no offense, just trying to help). The intro paragraph should answer the question "how do I fit into IT organizations" or "I am this kind of worker for this kind of job" or "my career focus is X".

    Usual advice for job history is the classic "action" formula: "there was this problem, I did this awesome thing, then this fantastic result happened because of it". "Supported managed/VPS customers" is so vague I don't even know what that means...you reset passwords and told them how to pick a Wordpress theme, or you compiled PHP modules for them and wrote firewall rules? Etc.

    It never hurts to invest an hour or two looking at LinkedIn to find some great profiles, then copy the style.

    That said, I'm not sure if Linkedin is going to be what gets you a job, but it's handy to have as a "business card" in the sense that it can be on your resume and you can point prospective employers at it.

    Just advice.

    LinkedIn is just an online presence. I don't value it that much, though. Your recommendations make sense and it seems I need to write my profile from scratch.

    I'll certainly do that in the coming days.

    My birthday will be in the 11th September. Let's hope I get a good present/surprise hehe.

    I must thank you for the PM's I've been receiving. I appreciate a lot.
    We might act like assholes to each other sometimes, but we're also pretty supportive when it's needed.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    @Nekki said:

    MrGeneral said: I had opportunities to travel to London and get a job there. But... I love Portugal too much and due to health issues I cannot travel that far. DevOp is something I love to do.

    I don't blame you, London's fucking horrible.

    Seconded, even though I love real London for my servers I'd hate it to live in. It's expensive and shit, I much prefer the shitty London suburb I live in, bigger houses, less amount of annoying people and tourists, and still travel-able.

    @MrGeneral said:
    for example, a DC hires me to setup a few racks. That'd be OK.

    Most jobs are 24/7 rotas for DC techs, and not super high paid either. I don't think you'd get a job where you setup a few racks, chill and go and get paid as a freelance. Just being real.

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  • MrGeneral said: We might act like assholes to each other sometimes, but we're also pretty supportive when it's needed.

    Shhh. Don't ruin it.

    Infinity said: Seconded, even though I love real London for my servers I'd hate it to live in. It's expensive and shit, I much prefer the shitty London suburb I live in, bigger houses, less amount of annoying people and tourists, and still travel-able.

    Yeah, I prefer being out in the suburbs, although if I could afford it (never going to happen) I'd live in Canary Wharf in a heart beat. There's literally no cunt there at the weekends, it's brilliant.

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    BTW, I'm amazed that a simple "dude, you wanna hookup" profile site like grindr requires 700 servers to run.

    Seven freakin' hundred.

    Either

    • someone's gone completely mad on horizontal scalability, or
    • they are using some hideously inefficient framework/language, or
    • there are a lot more gay people looking for sex online than I could ever have imagined, and I can imagine a lot.
  • @MrGeneral said:
    Not at all! But I understand what you mean. Thing is, I started selling webhosting accounts back in 2013 / 2014, seriously, hehe. It allowed me to buy what I needed. Teenager stuff. I'll redact that, and I appreciate your input!

    Teenager stuff = porn?

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  • trewqtrewq Administrator, Patron Provider

    From just looking at your LinkedIn quickly you should probably target yourself as a "problem solver" as you've spent a very short amount of time at multiple companies.

    @raindog308 said:
    BTW, I'm amazed that a simple "dude, you wanna hookup" profile site like grindr requires 700 servers to run.

    Seven freakin' hundred.

    Either

    • someone's gone completely mad on horizontal scalability, or
    • they are using some hideously inefficient framework/language, or
    • there are a lot more gay people looking for sex online than I could ever have imagined, and I can imagine a lot.

    To be fair they are AWS. 700 could just be their max scale up and they could normally sit around 1/4 of that.

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  • BradNDBradND Member
    edited September 2016

    @MrGeneral said:

    @BradND said:
    Your LinkedIn profile screams desperation, just thought you'd like to know.

    But good luck all the same, the market for DevOps seems to be picking up right now.

    Thank you for your opinion @Brad, what would you change in my profile? I mean, what's giving you the impression that I'm desperate? (Although I am, but my LinkedIn hasn't been edited lately)

    >

    Desperation may have been a little harsh, I meant your profile is a little in your face - over the top on justifying your experience.

    Others have echoed in this thread already but tinkering for 7 years and 6 years in an enterprise environment is a lot different than someone with 13. All I care about (as someone who regularly hires) What have you done in the real world.

    The money is in becoming a SME - specialise in something. The more specialist you are the more you get paid. Simple rack and stack jobs are typically not the best paid, choose one area and grow this.

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  • @raindog308 said:

    • they are using some hideously inefficient framework/language

    Has to be a Java app :D

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Infinity said:

    @Nekki said:

    MrGeneral said: I had opportunities to travel to London and get a job there. But... I love Portugal too much and due to health issues I cannot travel that far. DevOp is something I love to do.

    I don't blame you, London's fucking horrible.

    Seconded, even though I love real London for my servers I'd hate it to live in. It's expensive and shit, I much prefer the shitty London suburb I live in, bigger houses, less amount of annoying people and tourists, and still travel-able.

    @MrGeneral said:
    for example, a DC hires me to setup a few racks. That'd be OK.

    Most jobs are 24/7 rotas for DC techs, and not super high paid either. I don't think you'd get a job where you setup a few racks, chill and go and get paid as a freelance. Just being real.

    There's many companies that look for techs to setup their racks, sometimes they're not even in those locations.
    I have a client that might need me to do that, since they're not even from EU.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @raindog308 said:
    BTW, I'm amazed that a simple "dude, you wanna hookup" profile site like grindr requires 700 servers to run.

    Seven freakin' hundred.

    Either

    • someone's gone completely mad on horizontal scalability, or
    • they are using some hideously inefficient framework/language, or
    • there are a lot more gay people looking for sex online than I could ever have imagined, and I can imagine a lot.

    Hehee, they have a lot of stuff there, which I obviously can't disclose. Their team is excellent and it was an exellent job.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @tux said:

    @MrGeneral said:
    Not at all! But I understand what you mean. Thing is, I started selling webhosting accounts back in 2013 / 2014, seriously, hehe. It allowed me to buy what I needed. Teenager stuff. I'll redact that, and I appreciate your input!

    Teenager stuff = porn?

    No, not at all. Food, cookies, and such :P

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @trewq said:
    From just looking at your LinkedIn quickly you should probably target yourself as a "problem solver" as you've spent a very short amount of time at multiple companies.

    @raindog308 said:
    BTW, I'm amazed that a simple "dude, you wanna hookup" profile site like grindr requires 700 servers to run.

    Seven freakin' hundred.

    Either

    • someone's gone completely mad on horizontal scalability, or
    • they are using some hideously inefficient framework/language, or
    • there are a lot more gay people looking for sex online than I could ever have imagined, and I can imagine a lot.

    To be fair they are AWS. 700 could just be their max scale up and they could normally sit around 1/4 of that.

    I've done a lot of AD-HOC / one-time jobs.
    I worked for Tapatalk for 5 years, though.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @BradND said:

    @MrGeneral said:

    @BradND said:
    Your LinkedIn profile screams desperation, just thought you'd like to know.

    But good luck all the same, the market for DevOps seems to be picking up right now.

    Thank you for your opinion @Brad, what would you change in my profile? I mean, what's giving you the impression that I'm desperate? (Although I am, but my LinkedIn hasn't been edited lately)

    >

    Desperation may have been a little harsh, I meant your profile is a little in your face - over the top on justifying your experience.

    Others have echoed in this thread already but tinkering for 7 years and 6 years in an enterprise environment is a lot different than someone with 13. All I care about (as someone who regularly hires) What have you done in the real world.

    The money is in becoming a SME - specialise in something. The more specialist you are the more you get paid. Simple rack and stack jobs are typically not the best paid, choose one area and grow this.

    Understood, and thank you for your opinion. I'll definitely work in my LinkedIn profile in the next few days.

    Thank you all folks

  • trewqtrewq Administrator, Patron Provider

    @MrGeneral said:

    @trewq said:
    From just looking at your LinkedIn quickly you should probably target yourself as a "problem solver" as you've spent a very short amount of time at multiple companies.

    @raindog308 said:
    BTW, I'm amazed that a simple "dude, you wanna hookup" profile site like grindr requires 700 servers to run.

    Seven freakin' hundred.

    Either

    • someone's gone completely mad on horizontal scalability, or
    • they are using some hideously inefficient framework/language, or
    • there are a lot more gay people looking for sex online than I could ever have imagined, and I can imagine a lot.

    To be fair they are AWS. 700 could just be their max scale up and they could normally sit around 1/4 of that.

    I've done a lot of AD-HOC / one-time jobs.
    I worked for Tapatalk for 5 years, though.

    Yeah, and there is no problem with that. Just looking at it though it looks like you held actual positions rather than completing a contract then left 3 months later.

    I wish you the best of luck finding a position :)

  • Here in indonesia, economy is slow too, its like everyone is compete in everything. hope this going well someday.

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  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    trewq said: Yeah, and there is no problem with that. Just looking at it though it looks like you held actual positions rather than completing a contract then left 3 months later.

    I wish you the best of luck finding a position :)

    Correct, and agreed!

    Thank you very much, will do my best.

    @mgilang said:
    Here in indonesia, economy is slow too, its like everyone is compete in everything. hope this going well someday.

    Starting a company has never been easy!

  • jesus christ miguel everytime i come to let its something new with you

  • YmpkerYmpker Member
    edited September 2016

    Good luck @MrGeneral :)
    Good guy to work with^^

    You could also do some Freelance work here: https://www.upwork.com/ (I also once got a job there).

    or just write some cool scripts and sell them over at https://codecanyon.net/ .

    Cheers mate!

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  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @ChrisK said:
    jesus christ miguel everytime i come to let its something new with you

    There's always news in my life. It's always exciting.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Ympker said:
    Good luck @MrGeneral :)
    Good guy to work with^^

    You could also do some Freelance work here: https://www.upwork.com/ (I also once got a job there).

    or just write some cool scripts and sell them over at https://codecanyon.net/ .

    Cheers mate!

    Thank you mate! Got a few pms here and in LinkedIn, will go from there.

    Thank you for your help / suggestions, folks.

    Thanked by 1Ympker
  • DewlanceVPSDewlanceVPS Member, Patron Provider

    @MrGeneral said:
    Hi folks,

    I hope I can get some suggestions, as I need a job as soon as possible. Those who know me, are aware that I'm a great employee.

    Cheers,
    Miguel

    How much money you charge for making a WHMCS theme and Module for Blesta?

  • @DewlanceVPS said:
    How much money you charge for making a WHMCS theme and Module for Blesta?

    That's not going to put food on the table is it..

    @MrGeneral why not go further with your car wrapping company? That's a booming biz.. or even expand into window tinting (cost £200) on my F355.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @DewlanceVPS said:

    @MrGeneral said:
    Hi folks,

    I hope I can get some suggestions, as I need a job as soon as possible. Those who know me, are aware that I'm a great employee.

    Cheers,
    Miguel

    How much money you charge for making a WHMCS theme and Module for Blesta?

    Needs to be discussed. We have 3 programmers in Ad-hoc, only hired for specific projects.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Jacob said:

    @DewlanceVPS said:
    How much money you charge for making a WHMCS theme and Module for Blesta?

    That's not going to put food on the table is it..

    @MrGeneral why not go further with your car wrapping company? That's a booming biz.. or even expand into window tinting (cost £200) on my F355.

    We do car wrapping but there aren't many clients yet. We're a new company. We have recently begun shipping business cards and such in the EU. It takes time to grow a business and I need to invest thousands more. Then I'll go ahead with advertising it further. Windows tint is not possible for now. In Portugal you need a certification and the materials need to be certified as well. It's quite expensive.

  • MrGeneral said: Those who know me, are aware that I'm a great employee.

    Can you explain why nobody has retained you as a permanent employee ?

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