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you need to be a black woman with a masters degree in gender studies

either that or go on upwork and spend undpaid weeks writing proposals that will never get read and/or have the complete job in the proposal already to compete with pajeets who are willing to work for $0.50/hr.

I get them by just working on someone's project because I feel like it, job offers occur, and I sometimes take interesting ones. For example, I'm currently moonlighting as a gamedev on a game with over 1M sales because I was reverse engineering their game and fixing their bugs out of personal interest and curiosity and they offered to hire me as a developer. I've never done gamedev before, yet here I am.

>>819093

>yet here I am.

A gamedev?

>>819096

Yeah, in a position that's usually one of those "5 years of industry experience and released one AA/AAA game" type of deals.

>>819097

Not bad. Been there long?

I've heard the same thing from other developers. They spent time fixing bugs and then got hired for a job. Usually I hear it about people fixing bugs for the Linux kernel and getting hired by someone like RedHat or SuSe. But I've also heard of people being able to use that as work experience on their resumes and getting hired for other cool work.

Looks like it pays off, but man are there a lot of funky codebases out there, and I really don't know which ones to attempt contributing to.

>>819087 (OP)

Do you know what 'cold letters' are?

>>819089

> black

Get a tan or some shoe polish

> woman

Some women have penises, deal with it

> with a masters degree in gender studies

Well shit, that will put me in debt for the rest of my life.

>>819101

>Do you know what 'cold letters' are?

Nope. Though I imagine it's similar to a 'cold call.' If I knew all the answers I wouldn't have posted the question. Please, enlighten me.

>>819113

It's like a cold call except you send out letters to businesses. In the letter you introduce your services and inform them why you think you can provide some benefit for them that is greater than the cost of hiring your services. If you can sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves, you will probably be pretty good with cold letters.

>>819101

A few months so far. It's been interesting as I get to see the art magicians do their thing which is something I'd never get to see in my normal line of work and see different processes and tools than I'm used to. It's also been a bit horrifying as I'm used to very straight-laced development and gamedevs do things.. differently.

Hoe would one develop a game that has already been released?

>>819142

Simple. Make it better.

>>819093

Queen is that you?

>>819179

Yep, howdy.

>>819175

Yeah you can, when you tell businesses that their pajeet/chink code is garbage and will end up causing wasted man-hours which translates into lost revenue and possibly the business going into debt instead of seeing profits.

Russians are pretty good at code however.

I get a lot of 6-8 month contract offers, usually to clean up after Pajeet (via LinkedIn, mainly). It's terrible having to get inside someone's head and un-fuck their code, but it pays OK.