Within a month or two, I'll be relocating from Kansas to San Francisco to (hopefully) help a startup do great things in a Software Engineer or Web Developer role. I'll be in the Bay Area from today (in KC airport now) until Sunday for interviews. My resume can be found at http://drop.io/benresume. If anyone has any interest/info, email me at bengoering@gmail.com
I'll likely end up doing this. At least, that's the plan. Right now I'm just waiting until my lease is up at the end of July to go anywhere. This is the first 'feeler' I've put out just to see if anyone is awesome and helpful enough to take a chance on me. If nothing works out, I'll just be submitting resumes.
I'm nervous that I won't look that great on paper, at least compared to recent Stanford grads and whatnot that are clearly more qualified. On paper, all I've got on them is that I'll work for cheap. I'm on of those people you kind of just have to meet, or at least I'd like to think so. If I can sit down across from someone, I'm confident I can make them excited to work with me.
I had basically the same SATs except I dropped out of high school. I still got a job at 17 for 30k/year which adjusted for inflation + san francisco wages is like 60k+/year.
At this point you can't compete with Stanford grads. The great thing is that there aren't that many Stanford grads (or mit, cmu, etc.) You don't even have to compete with them to get a decent job.
Worst case, work QA for a year in a position where you can code as part of your job, but you don't need to code to be hired.
I'd love to get in contact with you. Perhaps I'm just a useless noob, but I don't see an email in your HN profile. I think HN hides the email your provide it, as it's only used for password resets. There's an address you can reach me at in my 'about' section.
