I won't bore you guys with my sob story but I've been unemployed and doing fuck all day after day for quite some time. I've been trying to educate myself about coding which is where I hope to land in due time, but it's been hard to summon enough motivation in the vacuum.

This got me thinking, maybe I can supplement my family income by doing a bunch of no strings attached computer stuff on fivver or something and get a bit of experience with coding along the way. Getting five bucks for an hour or two of work would be good pocket money here in Russia.

I'm a stemlord and generally consider myself to have a bit of a talent with coding, despite never having done it in a professional capacity. I know some C# from making shitty games in Unity, some Python from tinkering with machine learning and a bit of JavaScript.

Is there a smart way to approach this? I'm willing to learn those new fancy web frameworks or whatever.

  • StLangoustine [any]
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    3 years ago

    Where do I look for one of those? As far as gathered from my friends in IT, computer people were some of the first to move their meetings and what not online once the virus hit...

    • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Good question! It depends on your country and whether you live in a city. But there are often several groups and yes many are lib but they're a start:

      • "Open [City]

      • "Code for [City]"

      • "Civic [City] Hackers"

      • "[City] Python Programmers"] (substitute any language)

      • "[Demographic] programmers" if you fall outside the cishet white male demo

      Googling for these things is probably best but you can sometimes find groups on Meetup or similar platforms.

      Also your local socialist orgs might have tech interest groups!