cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/22970715

Looking for a change in work and would love suggestions on how to find jobs with understanding bosses and/or odd hours. I can always get my work done, but I tend to put in bizarre hours for my own projects due to the ebb/flow of chronic pain.

For me personally, I would prefer to work 16 hours on my good days and 0 hours on the days I can barely see straight because of migraine-level pain in my neck and back.

I’m currently working in San Francisco and have major issues getting to/from work without my entire day being focused on work-related travel (not to mention spending all of my time at home recuperating for the next work day)

I would take a massive pay cut to have a job from home with an understanding boss. Country is entirely irrelevant to me if they speak English and accept foreigners; otherwise, I know 2nd-grade-level Spanish, German, and French.

  • Is going through a recruiter a good idea?
  • Would there be any agencies that work specifically with disabled workers?
  • If not, what are good websites for actually getting call-backs on dev jobs?

I have all of the requirements for a home gig (desk, monitors, multiple computers, home server, webcam, etc), is there a way to subtly express that to a potential hiring manger?

  • derbis@beehaw.org
    4·
    5 months ago

    My company would be conducive to this. What kind of dev are you? We are not hiring right now but I can pass your resume along if it’s a fit. We’re tiny so it won’t just get lost in the shuffle

    • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      Entirely front-end as a job, but have my own dell server and play around with automation surrounding my website all the time. I did engineering software/product support and IT in the past, so back-end isn’t entirely foreign to me but I wouldn’t even consider putting that on my resume.

      My specialty as of late has been automation surrounding javascript/selenium/python for various healthcare companies but I have also used that skillset for viewbots for various SMM portals (Spotify/Tiktok/Instagram/SoundCloud views/favorites/follows/etc).

      Depending on the anti-bot methodology I either use Selenium w/ proxies or just use the programs API calls (such as w/ Spotify).

      Passive income on things like this has been fairly nice w/ my schedule, but I am looking for a change of pace if I can manage to find a company that would work with me.

      • derbis@beehaw.org
        1·
        5 months ago

        Unfortunately we’re a game company 😕 so maybe not much of a match. But if anything like that comes up I’ll let you know