jmsbrwr

I'm an engineer at a company in Palo Alto and I am looking for work to keep me busy during my free time. If you need your MVP built (and are willing to pay, of course) then I'd like to talk to you and get a better idea of what your idea is, what your timeline and budget looks like, and things of that nature. Feel free to email me at jms at brwr dot org.

I'm an engineer at a company in Palo Alto and I am looking for work to keep me busy during my free time. If you need your MVP built (and are willing to pay, of course) then I'd like to talk to you and get a better idea of what your idea is, what your timeline and budget looks like, and things of that nature.

Feel free to email me at jms at brwr dot org.

To put it bluntly, I currently offer no value to the tech community that has gotten me to a position where I am employable; and I don't like that.

What I am looking for is advice on how I can give back. Yes, I know I could write some blog posts and craft amazing open source projects that make everyone's life easier, but I don't know how. What do I write about? What would my amazing open source project do?

Also, I would like to join discussions here on HN. The problem with that is that I am the kind of person who, if I don't have anything to add to the conversation, does not say anything. And I almost always feel like I have nothing to add.

How do I get over all this and become useful?

Do companies take on interns who aren't in school?