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Any college degree. I started working when I was 14, finished high school when I was 16 and went straight into tech instead of uni.

Supposedly there's an exception where they evaluate experience vs credentials, but in my experience it hasn't been true, or it's used as an excuse not to hire.

I'm curious where you find them? One frustration is that only 2 job search sites (angel list and weworkremotely) have any featured to list "will hire from anywhere". Remote generally means "from our country".

Are you working with countries also from the EU or American companies?

I'm actually starting to wonder if I'm rejected / ignored because I'm old (43), and have been working almost 30 years. My last interview began with "Wow, I have to admit, your resume is intimidating".

I had a friend there who told me they rejected me because I was more senior than anyone in the company and the Director I'd be responding to was insecure about that.

I've been thinking about lying and saying I only have 10 years experience.

Great suggestions, thanks!

> You can always create an LLC in the US and work for it remotely. So your employer pays a contractor (your LLC), LLC pays you dividends. Talk to an accountant in Turkiye, but I doubt there will be any taxation difficulties with the foreign income. You can get an LLC in Turkiye as well, by the way.

I do already have an LLC, trying to give it more of a web presence now & add more projects to my GitHub account. As an aside, starting up a small solo business in Turkiye as a single foreigner is impossible. The requirements of immediately hiring 3 Turks makes it a non-starter as a solo consultant. It's funnier in that still can't work here legally, even owning a company, until I've hired some # of people. Also my company has to be owned like 50% or 49% by Turks.

Dubai, however, isn't my thing as a bisexual atheist who likes cold wet weather, beer and cannabis :)

Thanks!

I am married to a Turk and am here on a residential permit that I renew every 3 years.

We'd love it. I've applied to a few dozen jobs in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Copenhagen. I'm shocked at the low salaries, but still I get tripped up by my lack of a degree.

> Why not start working on a college degree to solve the work permit problem (wgu.edu comes to mind)?

I think about this, considering I'll be retired in the next decade due to declining health, it feels like a huge investment in time I don't have.

> In the meantime, reaching out the the thirty years of coworkers, bosses, and subordinates might also provide job leads related to your direct experience.

Been working through that. I have 6 open job offers if I move home to San Francisco.

As long as I'm working remotely for a company that doesn't have a presence in Turkiye (unless that presence is in one of the international development zones) then there's nothing for me to worry about. At least that's what my lawyer says when I ask him every year to see if the law has changed.

They don't actually. I still own a home back in the states, and still pay local taxes. From the state's point of view, I just work remotely for Californian startups.

Agreed. At my last job, we offshored all of our development to Belarus and Ukraine. One example we couldn't contractors living in Russia, and a few times we had to chew out our account manager at the offshoring company for being dishonest, and for risking us violating all of our largest customers.

I have an American contracting company, but rather the problem is a lack of customers.

To start a company here I have to hire two or three local employees before I am allowed to conduct business. It's a fairly anti-business country.

Where are you based out of?

I'm not in the EU, but rather in Turkiye. I'm a US citizen, and though it's legal to work here for companies who don't have a local presence, the HR departments at American companies tend to get cold feet.

I'm curious how you check? I ended up hiring a lawyer to research legality here. A site that explains all of these for any region would be pretty sweet.

> Most places have at least a couple hours of overlap with the US. What time zone are you in?

UTC+3 (Istanbul). Realistically I get 2-4 hours per day overlap with San Francisco and 4-6 with New York.

My criteria has been basically anybody using Terraform in the cloud. Everything else is negotiable.

What happens is the moment companies really where I am, they either get worried about the legality of hiring me (no concerns, unless they have an office here) or don't want to deal with the time zone.

It actually got worse since covid. Before Covid I would be unemployed 2-3 months in-between jobs or contracts.

   This gets complicated by the fact that most company's ops teams tend to work later hours.

Sadly, it is not an EU country I live in, or the issue would have solved itself, and I'd have citizenship by now.

I can't actually get a work permit in the country I live (turkiye) through marriage, but need to get sponsored. At this point I could get citizenship, if I improved my language skills, but it's more hassle than it's worth. I have more freedoms as a foreigner.