The Remote Problem

(17) or The Remote opportunities

There are some companies now-a-days who offer employees remote jobs with opportunity to stay anywhere in the world and have payment as equal to anywhere else in the world. There are lots of debates of working in office or in a remote place such as your home or other place.

But I love this, you can control yourself, your lifestyle and also work, give 100% of your skills, expertise when required, also you can stay beside your loved ones with a decent pay or more than above the local labor market.

These jobs are mostly tech jobs, some are support jobs, some are management and marketing ones. Everyday there is a new remote job portal opening up but mostly the opportunities are pretty same in all of those portals, there are only 3–4 authentic portals with unique job openings.

But Remote doesn’t means all over the world in many of the opportunities, in many of those opportunities it means being in anywhere in United States.

Leaving alone the very few opportunities for the world roles, of those almost 90% are hardcore tech roles, I mean they are looking for super awesome software developers, what is called now-a-days full-stack developers.

Being worked in MS BI Industry I am hardly fit for a 100% developer role, cause I never worked as a hardcore developer, the 5 years I spent in the industry primarily I worked as a Data Analyst,wrote SQL queries, built ETL Systems, designed and developed OLAP cubes, trained people in BI systems and managed BI focused projects and worked in small portions of all the other major tech tools and technologies such as .NET, MVC, Python, Javascript, Data visualization with D3JS, I was not a developer in those projects, but I knew how the codes were working and was able to fix any issues or do any minor changes or check if the client business requirements met properly.

So, for a remote job, I thought a role of tech support or project management would be a fit for me. Unfortunately as there are no PM roles for remote positions,so I applied in all the remote companies(200+) for a tech support role in last 1+years.

Here’s the hard part, none of them gave me a positive reply or even asked for an interview,I don’t know why. Still I am trying everyday.

I know there is a saying that become too good that nobody cannot ignore you, I duly believe that too but I have to work on that path by keeping capitalizing on the skills I have already. But it seems pretty quite dark till now, I know writing in this medium post will not solve it anyway, but I just wanted to get it out somewhere.

I am trying to break the puzzle and solve it finally, hopefully I will be able to do it soon.