Ask HN: Have you ever left your software development career as immigrant?

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I already had a front-end development job in my home country when I arrived to Copenhagen to deliver news papers at night. Tried to get a dev job there but I was rejected without interviews. Went back to my home country when I understood that the only job I can do is programming.

factorialboy 4y ago ↗

As an immigrant I went from soft engg to sales, then back to r&d engineering.

marto1 4y ago ↗

I'm about to delve into sales. Would you mind expanding on what detracted you from sales ?

factorialboy 4y ago ↗

Nothing. I love sales. After 5 years, it's time for the next chapter.

If you're interested, I'm authoring a series of essays (might be a short book someday) on the transition from engineering to sales.