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Sorry that I don't have time to do your question justice, but real quickly now: (1) "Over 30" is still quite young. (2) Don't worry about finding an ideal job right now. Or for the next 3 years, even. Just get any job that pays the bills in whatever city you happen to live, which doesn't drive you crazy every day (just some of the days), and which doesn't look like too much of a "resume stain." (A little bit of a resume stain is OK, for now). (3) And how do you get that job? Just keep applying, applying, and applying. It's like dating: you'll encounter (a hell of) a lot of rejection at first, but soon enough you'll find someone who sees the "real you", and will look past the faults that others can't get past. (4) Once you've done that -- everything else will take care of itself. Time will expand, and, as if by magic, you'll find space and energy to work on your big data skills, your github profile, your English, whatever. (5) And BTW, don't worry about your English. It might ding you in interviews (and you should definitely keep working on it), but it's really quite good. And you can take comfort in the fact that 99% of the people born in monolingual English-speaking environments in the U.S. (if that's where you are), i.e. the very people dinging you in interviews for your sub-perfect English skills, are themselves total wimps and klutzes at foreign languages, and would basically starve to death if dropped in a non-English environment and no one was willing to take pity on them and help them out despite their being too "lazy" to immediately become natively fluent in the local tongue. |
I know persistence is great virtue, but I was wondering if there is any way to get real work experience (team, communication, real job conditions) and at the same time getting a good salary, that seems highly unlikely now. Only way to get it if you are able to, in same way, show something outstanding of a great value for your employer, what doesn't seem easy to achieve.