My workplace is looking for a PHP / Laravel full stack dev to join my team. Fully remote, well established Sydney-based SaaS app. I think it's a great place to work. AU compatible timezones preferred. All experience levels welcome to apply, DM for more details.
@BeAware@inkican Don't go with Lemmy.. Use Mbin indeed (https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin)! I forked the /kbin project some time ago, I was afraid this would happen. So no worries, just move to one of the Mbin instances (or host your own Mbin instance).
Yesterday’s #FediverseMeetup at @offline, #Berlin was so cool and insightful! Lovely to chat with very knowledgeable and interesting folks.
I have been thinking about the discussion so much that last night I dreamt of @liaizon telling the story of how they built their whole self hosted #ActivityPub instance in one single #PHP file.
This is not true and I have no idea how my unconscious could have conceived this ahahah
A good indication that exchange rates are not the be-all-end-all is the #KRW and #PHP. Today's exchange rate is ₱1.00 = ₩23.00; compare that to U$1.00 = ₱58.00 (the former the Peso is stronger; and in the latter, the Peso is very weak).
A. Philippines and Korea: The minimum wage is not enough for a small family, or a solo individual, to get by weekly.
B. Goods are more expensive in Korea than in the Philippines.
C. Korea minimum wage: ₩78,880 or ₱3,342 / day
D. Philippine minimum wage: ₩14,396 or ₱610 / day
Koreans are still better off than Filipinos when living in the Philippines, while retaining their Korean wage. This is the primary reason why the largest foreign migration in the Philippines are Koreans (there are other important reasons why Koreans are living in the Philippines, like *cough*EducationIsNotToxic*cough*).
This is also the reason why there are many Filipinos who want to work in Korea.
If you are living in the Philippines, it is better because goods here are cheaper than most other countries. However, to have a good life, you need a wage based on US or Korea rates; or charge for your services closer to US or Korea current rates.
The traditional option is to join the rat race and climbed up the corporate ladder fast (which usually involves s*cking up to a lot of things your personal principles find wrong).
(PS. I remember reading an article (or was it a paper?) about how in the next 100 years, the Philippines will be have a very large Korean population, and South Korea, primarily Filipinos; especially with the declining Korean population.)
Anyway… how is it in your country?
* Disclaimer: I'm not an economy expert. My approach is probably very flawed. ^_~
I've been out of work for close to two months now. I know that many people have been looking for a lot longer than me. But, I had a really good prospect at a company that I respect, and felt that I was a great fit for what they were looking for.
After a bunch of interviews, all of which seemed very positive, I got word this morning that they wouldn't be making an offer.
This was so incredibly disheartening. I even have a friend who just started working there who was talking me up to them.
This is now the third time I've gotten far in the interview process, only for them not to make an offer.
I'm just feeling so frustrated now. The last time I lost a job (four and a half years ago) I had an offer at another company is less than two weeks.
Now, it's been nearly two months. I've sent out over 80 applications, gotten interviews at five or six companies, with three of them getting pretty far. But I can't get to the offer.
Anybody who I've ever worked with would tell you that I'm smart, talented, a hard worker, and a fast learner. But, none of that seems to be enough right now.
I've got an initial interview at another company on Tuesday. So I'm going to keep plugging away at this. But right now, man, I feel really demotivated.
In a couple months my severance is going to run out, and I have to have a new job before then.
If anybody knows any jobs for a senior PHP or golang developer, please let me know. This can't go on much longer.
It boils my blood to hear folks insinuate that #PHP is the source of their performance problems and they should switch to microservices in another language to fix the performance issues. Maybe spend a little bit of time figuring out where your bottlenecks are and fix those, first!