Hey All,
So here's my deal, and hopefully, someone on this board can offer some advice. I just graduated with my PhD in microbiology. However, the past 6 years have been a living hell, and I would rather live in a shoe box than ever have anything to do with science again. Luckily (or so I thought), I have a BA in Computer science, and was a developer for pretty much all of high school and college. So I started reading through the current web technologies, and focused on picking up PHP, while also refreshing my knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript / AJAX. I would consider myself now a capable (NOT EXPERT) at the basics of the language, and am picking up new stuff all the time.
My problem now is that every job I've looked at / applied for requires YEARS of experience, and obviously, to gain experience, you need a job. So I'm stuck in a perpetual catch-22 loop, with no means to get my foot in a door. I'm getting kind of desperate now, as I'm about to be kicked out of school housing (i literally defended my thesis two weeks ago :-P), and need a job in order to be able to find a place to live.
If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions, or even some basic freelance stuff they'd be willing to let me have a go at, please let me know. Oh, and I'm located in NYC.
Thanks so much,
Paul Santini
So here's my deal, and hopefully, someone on this board can offer some advice. I just graduated with my PhD in microbiology. However, the past 6 years have been a living hell, and I would rather live in a shoe box than ever have anything to do with science again. Luckily (or so I thought), I have a BA in Computer science, and was a developer for pretty much all of high school and college. So I started reading through the current web technologies, and focused on picking up PHP, while also refreshing my knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript / AJAX. I would consider myself now a capable (NOT EXPERT) at the basics of the language, and am picking up new stuff all the time.
My problem now is that every job I've looked at / applied for requires YEARS of experience, and obviously, to gain experience, you need a job. So I'm stuck in a perpetual catch-22 loop, with no means to get my foot in a door. I'm getting kind of desperate now, as I'm about to be kicked out of school housing (i literally defended my thesis two weeks ago :-P), and need a job in order to be able to find a place to live.
If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions, or even some basic freelance stuff they'd be willing to let me have a go at, please let me know. Oh, and I'm located in NYC.
Thanks so much,
Paul Santini