@sun@anemone Phoenix will probably have better opportunities. Tucson is small. It's like Arizona's Albuquerque, only NM does not have Phoenix and Arizona does. But man, Phoenix summers. It's basically worse than Vegas. If I needed to live in Arizona, I think the only acceptable place would be Flagstaff.
@sun@p@ren It always happens. A long time ago, if you typed "zaitcev" into Google, the whole first page was about me. I did it just now, and only 2 out of 10 results were mine.
@sun We only see successful cases of working for oneself. John Carmack, Ian McCollum. BTW, both of them received a significant support from their wives. But the only guy doing this, Michael Verhulst, ended sticking together with co-founders. Freelancing alone in computing is just too hard unless you're a superstar to begin with. (BTW, https://terminallabs.com/who-we-are/our-team/)
@sun At least you're not deluding yourself by driving for Uber, are you now? Also, aren't you only 2 months in? It's not even 12 months. Just make sure to spam resumes and pester friends.
He used to be a webdev and made good money, but not good enough. So he moved and became an Uber driver (around 2018 or so). At the time, he was shoveling money. However, the gig crashed during the pandemic. Instead of latching on any job immediately, he procrastinated because he had savings.
Today, he's got a huge gap in the resume, which really hampers his prospects. I don't think the technology has moved all that much. We still use Node and React. I'm in OS and filesystems, so I don't know, but I think the problem is more of getting a foot in the door again.
What would you guys do if you were in this situation?
@sun@medli oops I was very confused. Google says it's 5 hour 30 minute drive from downtown Nagano to Kyoto zoo. Sorry. Everything beyond Kanto is the same for me