Ask HN: If you had 3-6 months to demonstrate your skills?
by nimbleal on Hacker News.
I’m a long time hobbyist programmer (~20 years) with decent knowledge of a few languages (mainly Elixir, JS and PHP, but dabbled in others). I’m only thinking now of programming commercially — hoping for remote work — but have no portfolio or commercial track record. If you were in my situation, how would you go about proving your abilities to potential employers? Given my current situation, I could reasonably spend 3-6 months doing this.