Apologies when I said things were critical as unemployment money is now gone, and none of my job leads went anywhere beyond recruiters. I was blown away and shocked at the help I got and felt like yeah, I can weather this storm, something will come up soon. It didn't despite hundreds of applications.
I have something coming up next week but given the disastrous state of the tech industry, I'm not putting my faith into my next interview being The One until I sign a W2/1099. This weekend I'm going to sign up for and prepare to do some gig stuff until I can nab a part-time thing at Target or whatever won't make my old bones creak. 17 years of breaking software and managing people to be back at the bottom.
To that end, anything anyone can help with is greatly appreciated towards the bills and keeping a roof over my family's head for a little bit longer. I know it's bad for everyone right now, so take care of yourself first. The silver lining of lots of survival trauma is I'm hard to kill.
Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ATraini
Cashapp: $woopvonwoop
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Alessandra-Traini
Other ways to help:
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If anywhere you work has a need for a QA swiss army knife that can do project management, design, documentation and organizational lead/people work, but isn't depending so much on coding things, please hit me up. I've been in QA for ages but I would love to do more of the organizational/lead work than test until my eyes bleed. I'm like all soft skills from juggling every damn role in the SDLC, I don't belong in technical roles but it's my career
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I doubt there's any kind of remote/online work that'd pay something regularly like a gig job or part-time thing, but if so, let me know! I got a fiber connection, multiple computers, and even an old iPhone 8 that's still good for testing junk.
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I'm waffling on selling stuff just yet since this is a sudden development and giving myself the weekend to compose myself and build/start a gameplan. However, for now I'm only going evaluate the trinkets and nerd stuff or games that might be worth someone's time. I'll make separate posts for those under different tags if it comes to that.
Please please help out if you can!
