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tomhanks_cloneon How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career?

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tomhanks_cloneon How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career?

On reflection, the operative sentence of what is essentially my resume as a post is "ideally meet some builders", and that's what's driving my hesitance to relocate.

tomhanks_cloneon How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career?

DataEng or SWE roles--feedback is implicit via silence; Have you ever gotten feedback from a company on even an interview, let alone just an application? That's unheard of to me

tomhanks_cloneon How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career?

I'm glad to hear that landing a SEA job doesn't require living in SEA; my question is how to network with a SEA firm from outside given that my resume is proving to be noncompetitive on paper.

tomhanks_cloneon How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career?

This is definitely the simple answer. When I say "screw my career", I mean in terms of networking. Looking just at my commute needs, I could move to Kansas and just bank cash--I work for Virginia and will be full remote for as long as I keep the role.

That said, I'm concerned that moving to Mars would seriously hinder my ability to network into a job. I think I'm qualified, but I'm not a new grad anymore, and my 3 years of teaching are not competitive on paper with 3 years of pre-layoff MSFT.