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Ask HN: I will work for you a year for food if you sponsor my visa

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I am a new grad student in third world country, i studied Electrical Engineering and have a bachelor degree in it, i have experience developing REST APIs with rails, and have done some embedded programming in C/C++,I am a regular linux user and somewhat have good understanding of it , I have strong background in Algorithms and data structures that i studied alone, using various resources, and i want to quit my country, the problem is that being junior developer, nobody wants to hire me from outside my country because it needs visa sponsorship and they can't invest all of that in me, and the job market in my country is dead, (average developer salary is ~200$ per month) which is almost the minimum wage, and i can't do much with it, i want to have an opportunity to add some significant experience to my resume that can get me hired and get me a better future ,Beside my EE degree i have studied most of computer science subject online through MIT OCW and MOOC providers ,in exchange for this i am ready to sign a year contract to work for food and place to stay.

No ethical company in the US would do what you're what you're suggesting. In order to sponsor an international candidate (in the US), you MUST pay the prevailing wage for the role in that area, and even more importantly, you must prove that you can't find a candidate to fill the role withoug sponsorship.

Have you tried doing remote freelance work ? It can get pretty lucrative. Compared to local wages, in my country(Albania) a good wage is 500$/month. What I did is that I took a small-hastle full-time job and in the meantime I tried to build a remote-freelance career. Went from 2$-20$/hour (full time) job in 1 year. (i found jobs on odesk, the beginning was very hard but after you build a profile it gets easier).

Getting sponsored to come and work here in the U.S is very expensive. You have to have exceptional abilities for companies to want to jump through hoops for you. But there is still hope. Head over to upwork.com, Elance.com,Fiverr.com etc. and see if you can help people there and make some money to survive. All the best-

If you have an EE degree why are you trying to enter such a saturated market like web dev? Why not try to leverage your EE skills instead?

And no, I don't think anyone in a western country will sign you up to work for food and lodging. That would just look bad on the employer's side.

Is your goal to get a better salary or move out of where you currently live (Country) ?

Seems like you're from India for most part. Been There.

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