[HTC Droid DNA] pio_masaki:
I have no real skills to speak of that has any kind of formal education at all, besides getting my HS diploma I have nothing to show for what I have learned on my own over the last however many years I've been tinkering. I can work with hardware, soldering, wiring, I JTAG modded my own xbox 360s and even built my own cable from scratch for it, things like that. Other then that I spend alot of my time just reading about hacks on various things, working on cars, reading up on random things. It's hard to place my skill set anywhere since I have no one real set skill set which I think is hurting me since no one is willing to even let me show them what I'm capable of doing.

Freelance is how I make any money at all, usually doing menial tasks like setting up WiFi for some old lady for 15 bucks, or repairing a PC for 50 bucks, these come like once every couple of months. It costs 40 bucks a week in gas to take my son to school. Occasionally I may gets something like a phone repair job for 50 bucks, or the rare donation (yes, I do still get them occasionally, it's awesome) seems to come along when my family needs it most, I must have a sugar daddy out there with a few paypal accounts :laugh:

I've been registered with a couple local ones for over a year and not a single notice, call, email or whisper yet. Again I think my random skill sets are hard to place, and the places that would do well to use them, in some manner or another, like support of some kind, won't look at me.

Anything is better then nothing, I've tried a few places around here and no joy, and once again I think its my random skill set, my application and/or resume probably makes me look overqualified to pour someone coffee at 4 am, but if I thought myself to qualified, or to good for the job, why would I be applying? Oh yeah, I need a job, who cares what my qualifications are, if they exceed what you need, then I should be a damned super star, right?

I had been applying at Verizon once per month for 6 or 7 months or so and finally gave up. I've also applied to Sprint, Tmo, etc, and while I got an interview at Sprint it wasn't for what I was called in about, which was tech support in the store, they ended up removing that position after calling me for the interview, but not telling me until I arrived, so I went in expecting an interview concerning tech that I was comfortable with and instead got interviewed for sale floor selling stuff to customers and driving sales and all that fun stuff. I can do it, I've done it before, just never commission based, and I never got a response back from them either.

I try lol.

Meanwhile, so this isn't entirely OT, even though I'm fine with that in my thread, after my son being sick for a couple of months, and getting me sick somewhat randomly in there as well, and being broke and busy, I'm finally trying to get some builds going again. It's hard to keep up these days and I know I haven't really done much in a couple of months now, but it just hasn't been worth the time lately, and my family life has improved in some ways for it so I may not come back to android much at all now, it just hasn't been worth the strain to me and my family financially nor in terms of time and stress involved in it.

And I'm still going OT lol. Updating sources and squashing some bugs that have crept up in my absence, I'll have something bootable soon. Ran into issues with various sources and the theme manager changes CM has recently been implementing, and stagefright for whatever reason decided it hated life, and that's just in the first 15 minutes of the build...Anyways I need to catch up on the last month or so since I was last around here.