Ask HN: Average coder at dead-end. What now?
Greetings all! I was hoping the fine minds here might be able to help me out a little with the quandary I'm in. Some woeful backstory: I'm a (ahem) PHP developer & been doing it for 8 or so years now. I'll be honest, I'm no 'rockstar', 'ninja' or 'action-monk' but I think I'm reasonably good and have always managed to build whatever is required within a decent timescale. Nothing has even blown the heck up on my watch. I've done everything from proper low-end nonsense to working on/building on a few largeish e-commerce sites (nothing enormous but in the $millions taken through site in a year). Right now I'm earning £18,000/yr (approx $26,708.40 - off the top of my head ;) with ZERO chance of pay rise (it's been 2 years since my last one) and while this pays the rent, that's about it. I can't pay every bill that comes through each month as it stands. The problems I have are twofold: 1.
Why it failed
Greetings all! I was hoping the fine minds here might be able to help me out a little with the quandary I'm in. Some woeful backstory: I'm a (ahem) PHP developer & been doing it for 8 or so years now. I'll be honest, I'm no 'rockstar', 'ninja' or 'action-monk' but I think I'm
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- forcetenhen
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews