[JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

[Steve Holden]

Anton Vredegoor wrote:
[...] I mean, not everyone is able to visit expensive
> high-profile hiring fests like pycon.

What! I resent that remark. PyCon was started precisely because I felt a 
low-cost event would better encourage community involvement. If PyCon is 
beyond your means that you clearly aren't looking to be hired as a 
programmer ;-)

Seriously, I know that not everyone can afford to travel away for a 
week's conference, but I've had reports that people *from the UK* have 
found it cheaper to attend PyCon than the three-day Python UK event held 
in concert with the ACCU (though that track is no longer purely Python 
anyway, so things are changing).

> ... while I'd be immensely useful in a 
> space telescope science institute or a genome database research 
> institute or in an artists educational institute or in a psychological 
> statistics institute or in a computer science or mathematics institute 
> etc. there is no way people can see that, because they're thinking in 
> resumes, job experience and formal education instead of in just asking 
> themselves what needs to be done and can he do it.

With an attitude like the one you exhibit in your post I seriously doubt 
that. "You've got to speculate to accumulate". If you don't have a dream 
your dream can never come true. If you dream of being a paid programmer 
then it's up to you to make it happen. There's no use standing around 
saying "the world is all wrong so no-one will ever hire me".

See it from the employer's side. Their first problem after advertising a 
vacancy is to get the numbers requiring interview down to manageable 
proportions. This involves looking for reasons to reject applications. 
If you can't make it on your resume/CV then try something more 
attention-grabbing. Just don't sit there and whine :-)

regards
  Steve
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