Ask HN: Best alternative jobs for “outdated” skills with small websites/apps? 24 by spearingthehead | 20 comments on Hacker News. I am a software engineer who is self-taught, and after graduation I took local jobs for small web shops for dev work. Here's a brief description of my timeline from beginning to present: - 1.5 years contract-to-hire SWE (W2 never actually happened) - 3 months full-time W2 work, followed by 6 months unemployed - 10 years independent contract work (freelancing) - 2.5 years of no work, and a lot of job searching The last 5 years of independent contract work have been very sporadic. During this time I typically made under $10k every year. I don't really know how to "put myself out there" as a freelancer, and after 10 years of doing it, I just want to go back to W2 as a FT employee. My tech job skills include, PHP, MySQL, vanilla JS and jQuery. I don't know testing, cloud, or CI/CD practices. Jobs involve building small scale websites- at...
