jnoble__resume VS phonk

Location: Canberra, Australia.

Remote: Only if the whole team is remote and the company is set up for it; otherwise I’d prefer to be in the office at least 3 days a week. I work Tuesday-Friday.

Willing to relocate: No. I have chickens.

Résumé: https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume

You may know me on the internet as Johnny.Decimal. I now live in Canberra and am looking for a role in the data world: think data architect, PM on a data-focussed project, that sort of thing. Alternatively I think I’d run a great PMO: think about project artefacts liberated from Word documents, given their rightful status as database records. Mmm, nice.

I’d prefer something local and in-person but hey, this is HN. Who knows who’s out there. I’ve just done 7 years contracting with a massive systems integrator and am looking for something different.

https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume

I've got 20+ years of experience, and this time I re-wrote it from scratch. So far I've only been in touch with one recruiter, but he said that he liked it!

Résumés are so boring. I've seen dozens while trying to hire people. Try to be a bit different perhaps?

I’m just about to live this hell. On advice from a friend, my response will be a simple one: no, because it doesn’t exist. It was written in Markdown [0]. Here’s a PDF.

I’m expecting the usual pushback, and will reciprocate. I’ll let you know how it goes.

[0]: https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume/blob/main/resume.md

(Yeah I shamelessly inserted my own résumé.)

Yes.

I’m a contractor at a large IT integrator in Australia.

It helps that my boss was (see below) a good friend. I think it was mid-last-year, I just realised I’d be mentally healthier if I worked 4 days a week. So I said, I’m going to start working 4 days a week. And he said, okay.

And it is glorious. You go from spending almost 3/4 of your life at work (71.4%) to just over half (57.1%) and I know those numbers are silly but I put them there because that’s really what it feels like.

Previously the weekend was this fleeting thing that came and went. I barely remembered it before it was over. Now … well, right now it’s Monday morning, and Monday is the day that I don’t work. Monday is the day that I spent on my side projects. Monday is the day that we go to the movies or go shopping or to a gallery.

FAQs, do I still work 40 hours? No. I did for a spell, when it was busy. I’d say my average has been 36. But now I’m on 32.

Do I get less done? Not really. There’s so much wasted time in the typical day, and I do think that this has focused me the times that I am at work. When I’m on, I’m on.

I’ll fight tooth and nail to keep this arrangement. I’m looking for a new job. The boss moved on to a different role, it’s that transition time when everyone seems to move on.

I’ve put my 4 day thing in the front section of my résumé. Which is on GitHub, so if anyone in Canberra is reading and wants to hire the guy behind Johnny.Decimal, all my details are here.

https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume

https://phonk.app/ just added this to my bookmarks not affiliated

phonk: https://github.com/victordiaz/PHONK

On their github page:

“A framework for old and new Android devices”

https://phonk.app

Basically it is a device-hostable framework and IDE that allows rapid scripting to do interesting stuff.

I made robots, IoT controllers, music devices, tools and many more with it!

Looks at Droidscript and PHONK.