How my little hacker dream get started

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by kahfei • 14 years ago

2 4 14 years ago

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little story of how I came across Paul Graham's essay, hackerdom, and trying to transform myself to a developer.

read_wharf2• 14 years ago

Unless you're internet famous, you have to tell me what "this" is in the title or I'm not going to look.

kahfei2• 14 years ago

hey, you are absolutely right. I have revised the title, hopefully it is more meaning full now.

read_wharf2• 14 years ago

And now I looked. ;-)

"You do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that’s called a hack"

"After completing the test project, although the employer commending on the effort I put on, he couldn’t take me as he is looking for a permanent fulltime remote employee, not a part-timer. And he doesn’t have the budget to match my current fulltime salary.

"I tell him frankly I might not have a lot of real world rails experience, but I really like web development and would love to have the opportunity to work on the project. So we discussed about the possibility of a part time arrangement on hourly rate. We come to a rate that is much lower than if I were to divide my fulltime salary by the hour. But heck, I am starting out and just glad to get my first freelance rails gig.

"So far I have been in it for about 2 months, I work on the project by waking up early at 4 or 5 a.m. before going to work on weekday, then a total of 8-10 hours on weekend."

You hacked your freelance gig.

Congratualations on opening your eyes to something bigger. Thanks, and good luck.

How my little hacker dream get started

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