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So, I'm a CS student in a third world country. I love coding and I think i'm pretty good at it.

As I'm kind of poor, I'm pretty much constantly looking for any job I can take, and I've already done a dev gig at a software sweatshop here doing mostly PHP, JS and Android/Java... the dev experience was cool, but money was absolute crap ($1.5USD/hour at the current rate, working 9h/day Mon-Sat, did it while in vacation). Better than min wage in my country but still, looking at the numbers I see from programmers all over the world... it was practically working for free. The real problem is almost every dev job here is similar, so I was looking into going remote but every opportunity I see is for seniors/people with 2-3 years experience or more.

Can you give me some tips on getting a remote job as a student/recent grad with little experience? What would you do in my position? Any input is greatly appreciated!

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  • 1
    If you haven't already, you should definitely checkout this site: remoteok.io
  • 2
    Kudos man. Keep on doing it you'll be great. Freelancer.com is alright. Weworkremotely.com is good for contract work
  • 3
    dude. tu Indian hai na?😂
  • 0
    try upwork too
  • 2
    what would be a good income in your situation?
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    if look at upwork, if $1.50 is bad, but above the minimum, is guess $3-5 would be acceptable?
    you should fairly easily be able to get freelance gigs at that price, once you've got experience you should have no problem upping your rate to more like $25, or more.
    it's worth looking at other freelance sites too.
  • 0
    at least you got paid. here in my place I have to complete internship due to university requirements. started 2 months back. haven't been paid a single dime. 10 more months of free labour to go
  • 0
    how are you supposed to live a year without income? wtf?
  • 0
    @heyheni now am looking for freelancing job during my free time.
  • 1
    @heyheni and we live with parents in my country. that's how it works. leaving parents is rather disrespectful here.
  • 0
    @1geek0 Nope, Colombian.

    I've tried upwork but never really got to make it work. I'll lower my rate and see y that gets me anything. Meanwhile, I'm working on a personal project so there's that!
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    @ununicornio let me know what you are working with, and what kind of work you want, I'll see if I can do anything, drop me an email ;-)
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    @ThomasRedstone The project I'm currently working on is an android app for order taking and generating receipts that integrates with a billing software used in a lot of companies here in Colombia.

    Gonna shoot you a mail right now, thanks!
  • 0
    @ununicornio sounds interesting! looking forward to that email :-)
  • 0
    @ThomasRedstone I wrote to the email that appears in your github right after commenting D: didn't you recieve it?
  • 0
    hmm, not seeing it, try Thomas@Redstone.me.uk
  • 0
    @ThomasRedstone Done! Hope to hear back from you soon
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