Unless you have like system architecture side of system admin you're going to have a hard time

you're competeing with lower wage workers

What's the big JavaScript framework now? Angular?

that's an option..

Ok. I should stop applying for sys admin jobs. I don't see them much anyway. I see a lot of help desk now. It pays low but I apply anyway since I'm in financial danger and can't be a chooser

Flask and Django?

Angular is a good auggestion, but I'm running out of time to learn new skills

Is that still getting used?

I'm going to be applying for minimum wage jobs next week

I would say look for some python web shit

Yeah. Selenium was popular a while ago, but that's over saturated with low wage workers now. It's what I was doing on Upwork last year. Now the pay is 30% of what it used to be

Honestly though, a lot of the jobs I'm applying to and interviewing at aren't that complex and cutting edge. A lot of people just want a data guy around who can manage a database and do some analytics

@Big T maybe can hook you up with a contact

everyone I know is looking for C, C++ people

all my stuff is in berkeley CA

Maybe, post your CV remove identifying info

That would be helpful. Everyone here is focused on mysql and python, sometimes java

A lot of the good python jobs are rewriting old python in C so it's faster lul

Like I said. These aren't super advanced positions. I should be able to get them. I see more diverse people with lower qualifications getting them all the time

@Big T 's point about being overqualified comes into that equation too

I stay away from corporate stuff now and focus on medium sized businesses since HR is too heavy of a gatekeeper and there are usually less applicants

How would I solve the over qualification problem?

If I cut out major parts of my resume there will be gaps

remove work experience when applying to lower level jobs

Well TBH putting stuff on there with your own company looks like a gap to most HR departments anyway

Yeah. I figured. Because it pretty much is. I thought I could do my own business, but I wasn't particularly great at the actual business part, only the tech

The other thing is unless the upwork shit is less than you'd get at a minimum wage job

why not take some more gigs there

Btw. How much of a salary so you expect this type of work to go for?

Matching my skill level, something I could realistically get

I've no idea for data science

The highest offer a company was ok so far with was 80k. And, I kid you not, it was for managing a database for HR that used special management software to keep track of demographics and diversity in the hiring process...

why didnt you accept it?

Because they didn't select me for the 3rd round

Then you didn't get an offer lul

I'm looking at ads

I mean, when they ask the salary on the phone interview, she said it was an acceptable expectation

R, SAS, master's degree

No one here uses R anymore. I'm getting told by data scientists to ditch it unless you're already good at it or going into biology with it

The salary range for the job I had an in person interview on Thursday was 45-55k. They asked what I wanted and I said 50k is fair for me. He didn't like the response.

But then again, he was Jewish and from Brooklyn lol