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Hi and thanks so much for visiting this fundraiser! In a nutshell: I am looking for £500 funding to help me buy a laptop which will enable me to return to my career as a web developer and improve my family's quality of life. Why am I doing this?For those who don't know me, I'm Dave, a 43 year old family man living in the Isle of Man with my wife, Naomi, and two kids, Quill (9) and Fenella (7). In 2014, for various reasons, I gave up a successful career as a Front-end Web Developer to follow a more practical path and I've been working mainly in the building industry since. I'm currently working as a ground-worker for a local paving company - paving, concreting and building stone walls. |
Over the past couple of years I've really missed web development and in 2017 a friend gave me an old desktop computer which I set up as a web development machine and I started coding again. In the Autumn I upgraded the memory from 4Gb to 8Gb with parts salvaged from a recycling centre.
The computer works well enough for casual coding but is far from ideal as a professional machine. Since 2017 I've worked on a few projects and flirted with the idea of setting up a wood working business but until 6 months ago I'd not seriously made moves to return to my career as a web developer. However, I miss it greatly and I know it would be a game changer for us!
After several years of providing for my family on a relatively low weekly wage (with some assistance from family and the Manx government), I really want to break this pattern and get us closer to living the life that we wish to live. I've had enough of us scraping by in the daily grind.
Last year I decided that to make a significant change in our lives, I need to return to web development -- it can be pretty lucrative, it's what I'm good at, enjoy most and have a great deal of passion for. Plus, I'm not getting any younger and I'm definitely feeling the effects of manual labour on my body. :)
Since July/August last year I've been re-tooling myself by following online courses and working on small personal projects in my spare time in order to bring my skills up-to-date. I've also started to contribute to open source projects (free, community developed software with publicly accessible source code) and have built my portfolio website, https://crafted.im I've had a handful of interviews since November and have had some great feedback from recruiters and interviewers -- one local company unfortunately had to pull the job I applied for but had asserted that I'd be a great fit for the company and they really wanted to give me the job. I'm now awaiting news about a remote contract position in the UK and I'm told they gave some great feedback. Fingers crossed! I'm really happy that I'm getting interest from companies and so excited to be getting back on the right path! | https://crafted.im | So, here's the thing ... If I was to be offered any contract work in the next few weeks, I may not be able to take it as my current development computer is not mobile (which is essential for a contractor/freelancer), it's pretty slow at some tasks and I'm unable to use essential tools like Photoshop. So, I am looking for funding to buy an entry level laptop with enough power to handle professional web development work, which I can later trade-in for a fangle-dangle machine once I have established myself again. As I can't presently get credit through the traditional channels and there's no way with our income that we can save up to £500 within a reasonable amount of time, We are hoping that Crowd Funding will help us take the next step in our journey. I really don't want to just take your money, so I'd like to repay the funds. If I am lucky enough to get this funding and I have started being paid on my first contract, for any donations received I'll return your donation plus 20% or I can donate this to a charity of your choice. If you got this far, thank you for taking the time to read about our cause. If you can't donate, please share and if you can, we sincerely and humbly thank you for helping us out . :)
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