Ask HN: Burnt out developer trying to move out of Iran, advices?
by throwawaymg on Hacker News.
To sum it up quickly Living in Iran 38yo/married/no kids University drop out Burnt out developer because employer asks you to finish the job quicker and quicker and then throws more work at you without any perks/changes to your salary Have been working as a bookkeeper/sort of an accountant for 5 years No savings/hard to save much when your salary is 350USD/mo My wife has a masters degree in accounting and a good resume Good skills in Vanilla JS/HTML/CSS Viable skills in C#/T-SQL/a lot more No resumes Planning to migrate to Europe/US/Australia in next 5 years because Iran is on edge of economic/social/life-basics collapse. 1. My main question is: Can I work as a developer and not be under pressure every minute? 2. If I get hired as a developer, can I have a life outside my work or I’m gonna have to learn the new hipster framework after work hours for the rest of my life? 3. Is it worth cutting my salary by 2 days a week to work on open source projects to build up a resume? 4. I’m fine learning say, COBOL. Should I go that way? 5. Am I better looking for other jobs? 6. Any advices? P.s I don’t think I can do paid remote work for foreign countries until I get a second passport since Iran is sanctioned and I probably can’t have a bank account in western countries.