Ralf Lenz, BOFH Emeritus 🏴‍☠️Feb 2, 2024

I gave #linkedin an honest try, for a year or more, in terms of finding #work. It's a cesspool of #toxicpositivity and fake job postings.

Now I'm asking, with all urgency -- to anyone who has anything #tech to offer, please consider a guy who has:

- 30 yrs of exp
- out of work 20 mo
- 3 kids, one approaching her 1st birthday
- a track record for secure systems
- a month before eviction
- low salary reqs

CV: https://jrlenz.com/files/cv-2023-12.pdf

US citizen | PH resident

#GetFediHired #Remote

Show threadDanieFeb 2, 2024
@ralf are you able to start a firm from where you are?
In Netherlands it costs you some hours and €60 and you are registered entrepreneur.
Then you can present your firms expertise. You can write possible clients offering them to help with the work they don't like to do, or to help with an overload of orders, or to improve their systems
Show threadRalf Lenz, BOFH Emeritus 🏴‍☠️Feb 2, 2024

@danie1 I own a small convenience store, but that's enough ... I am not looking to start a consulting firm in the tech industry; marketing myself to clients abroad (the only folks who could afford to pay me) would be a nightmare to execute.

Besides that, all my capital is gone after 20 months of unemployment.

Show threadDanieFeb 11, 2024
@ralf probably i misunderstood you. What you saying is: with your expertise in your field it's easier to get a job then to get an assignment as an entrepreneur
Show threadRalf Lenz, BOFH Emeritus 🏴‍☠️
@danie1 @ralf it’s not, because I am #remoteonly and a US expat in PH. Local companies won’t hire me because I’m a bit on the pale side; US companies won’t hire me because I’m outside the border.
Feb 11, 2024 at 11:38pmWeb
Show threadRalf Lenz, BOFH Emeritus 🏴‍☠️Feb 11, 2024
@danie1 @ralf but I have no interest in being an entrepreneur. I spent the previous 15 years either working 18hrs/day or being on call 24/7. I just want to work and turn off the computer when I’m not.