Re: Looking for Clojure-centric career advice/suggestions

2014-07-24 Thread VaedaStrike
The QA thing has passed my mind, and for the same reason you mentioned, being able to sneak in some clojure/clojurescript into the automation. I may need to look more into the whole contracting thing. It is a bit scary when I've got so little real world experience. On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6

Re: Looking for Clojure-centric career advice/suggestions

2014-07-24 Thread VaedaStrike
I appreciate that Zach. The whole idea of casting a wider net is certainly something I'm open to, I may have made it appear that I'm picky when it comes to what I code in. I'm really not. I've gotten where I have simply because I've both been fortunate and driven by more unusual motives than wh

Re: Looking for Clojure-centric career advice/suggestions

2014-07-23 Thread Alan Moore
Many of us started out in non-development jobs and worked our way into full time coding. Tech support jobs are ok but I would focus more on QA jobs. This might allow you to do some automated testing using clojure/clojurescript and given that test code isn't given the scrutiny that dev code goes

Re: Looking for Clojure-centric career advice/suggestions

2014-07-22 Thread Zach Oakes
It sounds like you know what you want, and you're fortunate for that. I often don't, and I can tell you that greatly complicates things. At any rate, there are few things more stressful than career changes. Perhaps you are casting too small a net. Many here would love to be paid to write Clojur