I am not particularly a web guy historically, but when I retired I did some pro-bono website development for non-profits. One I did six years ago has had some reported praise and after all this time of course needs to be redone so I am hanging around a bit looking at django. Doing this sort of thing is not necessarily going to generate a lot of cash for you, but you get to deal with real customers and often get to make all the tech decisions. When you get done, you might well have some nice references, and maybe you get some do-gooder strokes. An interesting aspect is that the deadline situation may be a lot softer than you were used to in that startup. This means that if you are capable of learning on your own, you may have time to learn on your own.
Here is a trick. It may be that a lot of these non-profits put a lot of consideration on you buying into their mission. A simple example is that a religious non-profit might prefer a person from an acceptable religion to the person with the best tech skills. Looking at your resume, as a web guy, your resume might be better than mine. But playing it as I suggested might mean you need a wide range of other tech knowledge also. For instance, somehow I end up using a lot of unix system admin knowledge on what I think of a primarily a web site. So I am a old guy and am fine with a CLI, but people show up to help me that are so dependent on graphical interfaces, that they really cannot function. But they come in talking about their Linux experience. Hmm, historically, I sold and installed ms windows networks and software, so it is not like I learned unixy stuff at my mother's knee. Hey, I saw some employer type responding about how he likes to hire people who enjoy this stuff. He is probably a pretty smart guy. But if you are smart, I suggest you figure out what you like to do just because. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
