Writing this post is to make a decision for myself, and I also want to talk about my heart, and give it to all technical colleagues who are stuck at the 35+ workplace and find a job and find a job.

At the age of 39 this year, he has never lost his technical foundation, and his self-discipline has always been online, but the real hit is actually lost to the age bias of the industry.

During this time, I was very impressed when I was looking for a job. When working offline, HR first looks at age first, and the older resumes are basically in the sea; companies prefer young people and can handle overtime, and middle-aged people are naturally screened out. It is even more difficult to find a remote job by yourself: there are many high-quality remote posts overseas, but I am not good at communication with foreign languages, connecting with foreign companies, and negotiating salary contracts; There are very few long-distances, and there are only messy outsourcing in the market. There are many parties in the pit, the salary is unstable, and the qualifications are difficult to distinguish.

When a person is 39 years old, he has long been unable to afford blind sea investment and repeated trial and error. At present, people are in Chengdu, and the current state is very clear: while taking part-time outsourcing to maintain income, they are given priority to find full-time remote jobs, and at the same time, they are slowly precipitating resources, and plan to go in the direction of freelance and self-employment. For me at this stage, it is a top priority to find a stable full-time remote with the highest priority. On the one hand, outsourcing income is sometimes absent, Party A is arguing, the project is unstable, and it is impossible to live for a long time; I also know very well that after adapting to the rhythm of long-distance freedom, I basically can’t go back to the 9 to 5 working inside. I don’t ask for a full-time remote work that can not be discriminated against by age, and can be controlled by time. I can not only stabilize the fixed income, but also spend time and prepare for local freelance entrepreneurship in Chengdu steadily.

After carefully reading the new remote talent pool regulations released by the webmaster Dahui, after reading the charging rules, rights and responsibilities and signing requirements one by one, they have been tangled and deliberated for a long time. Repeatedly stuck on one of the most realistic concerns: I am about to be 40 years old, even if it is stored in the warehouse, how many companies are still willing to recruit developers of this age?

This is also the point where I hesitate the longest. In the offline market, the 35-year-old is the obvious threshold, and the 40-year-old is basically directly filtered by the HR system. But during this time, I have slowly figured out:Remote posts are the worst track in the industry in the whole industry.

The full-time remote post released by Dian Duck in the past, many small and medium-sized foreign companies, overseas teams, and lightweight entrepreneurial research and development teams do not value age at all: they are more biased than young people’s physical strength. Love the project experience, stability, self-discipline, and low turnover rate of developers around the age of 40. The community also has clear recruitment, which directly states that 35+ is preferred, and can be recruited within 50 years old.

The difference lies in: I invest in my own overseas investment, and the age is directly stuck; the talent pool broker is a pre-docking company, communicates with the age adaptation in advance, directly helps me screen out the age discrimination against employers, and only connects the team that accepts middle-aged technicians. This is also the core reason why I finally made up my mind to officially apply to join the Electric Duck Remote Talent Pool.

Tell me about my real thoughts, there is no impulse, it is all pragmatic considerations for middle-aged migrant workers.

1. Why can I accept: 20% one-time monthly salary for the first month of employment?

First help the older peers of the same model to understand: this set of charging rules, the risks are all on the platform, and the job seekers have zero early risk, which is very friendly.

1. Postpaid, zero trial and error costs: I didn’t join the job, I didn’t get the first month’s full salary, I don’t need to pay a penny. There is no entry fee, membership fee, and interview fee, even if there are several interviews, multiple employers, and finally do not join the job, the whole process has zero expenses.

2. The bottom is in place, don’t be afraid to step on the pit: If the salary during the probationary period is lower, the service fee will be calculated according to the salary during the probationary period; the service fee will be calculated according to the salary during the probationary period, or the company will be dismissed by the company.

3. Only once, not monthly: I only charge the fee in the first month of employment. I have been working in this company in the future, and I will not deduct money every month. I spend money to buy the entry service, not a long-term commission. I have encountered the situation that the monthly salary of the headhunter is fixed to 20% of the monthly salary, although I finally gave up, haha.

4. Four confirmations, the contract compliance is guaranteed: Incoming the warehouse prompts, email notification before the interview, WeChat re-checking, and electronic real-name signing of the contract, four-step confirmation, and will never be deducted for ignorance. The contract is signed by Byte, which is the same as the legal effect of the paper contract.

To put it bluntly, at the age of 39, I don’t have the energy to connect with foreign companies, translation and communication, cross-border reconciliation, and negotiate wages. The community remote broker group has its own technical skills, foreign language skills, and corporate resources, and specializes in helping us connect with high-quality employers, screen reliable remote posts, and avoid unscrupulous companies and low-cost outsourcing. This money is essentially buying channels, saving time, and avoiding risks. It is the most efficient job search choice for me at this stage.

2. Impress my additional benefits, pragmatic and worry-free

The talent pool is not only for paid remote recommendations, but also has real free resources, and there are many ways to retreat:

✅ Local high-end headhunting positions in Chengdu: free recommendation

✅ High-quality work of the old family: free docking

Inbound is equivalent to leaving three paths for yourself: the first choice is stable full-time remote (paid docking, the highest priority at the moment); alternatives are available in Chengdu, and you can go through headhunting channels for free; There is a way to advance and retreat, and you will not be trapped to death.

3. Understand the electric duck: it is not a commercial headhunter, but a co-construction

After staying in Dian Duck for a long time, I know that the community has always been volunteer operation and maintenance, and there is no profitable income. In the past, the community could only passively wait for companies to send posts, and there was no way to take the initiative to connect employers at home and abroad.

Set up a remote broker group and formulate charging rules, not to make money and make profits, but to allow this docking service to do it for a long time.

When we are middle-aged people in remote distances, we are most afraid that it is never the salary level, but the work fault. After a remote project is over, the income cannot be connected to the next job, and the income will be directly cut off. The broker group has long-term outreach enterprises and reserve positions, which can help us stabilize our remote careers and try to connect work as seamlessly as possible.

Compared with blindly accepting outsourcing and spending energy, slowly exploring entrepreneurial and expanding customers, spending a one-time service fee, winning stable full-time remote, locking fixed cash flow, by the way, accumulating the resources of cooperative enterprises, and paving the way for subsequent freelance entrepreneurship, which is very cost-effective. Don’t worry about taking orders while worrying about the future, full-time remote just balances three things: income, personal time, and entrepreneurial preparation.

4. The heartfelt words written to all 35+ technical colleagues

I used to be stubborn and felt that I had to rely on myself to find a job, relying on technology and personal connections to fight alone. It was only when I was 39 that I wanted to understand that in the middle-aged workplace, it is not self-improvement, but self-internal consumption.

Companies prefer young, low-cost, and can stay up late to work overtime. Remote track is originally the best way for older developers to avoid age discrimination and control their own life.

Don’t be ashamed, don’t worry. Remoteness has never been a haven for fishing, but a retreat for adults to take the initiative to choose freedom and control life.

I agree with the community co-construction model, accept this set of transparent rules, and admit it frankly: At this stage, it is too difficult for me to find a full-time remote.

Officially submit the application, and settle in the electric duck remote talent pool.

May every middle-aged technician not be defined by age, keep his own technical confidence, and have a stable, free and sustainable work and life. ✨

Recently, I have been unemployed at home, while silently running my own blog while looking for remote work intermittently. After leaving the rhythm of punch-in in the workplace, I often struggle: should I be a freelancer to take an order, or should I develop and start a business independently, or find a full-time remote job? After thinking about it, instead of tangled in internal friction, it is better to go hand in hand and try multiple lines.
My technology stack is PHP / Go dual stack backend——PHP has been the main force for many years, and Go has also penetrated into the level of concurrency model, microservice governance and cloud native practice. Both languages can independently carry projects. Since ‘multi-line operation’ is required (find full-time, outsourcing, and looking at the direction of entrepreneurship), the information channels cannot be as chaotic as before.
I used to have nearly 30 URLs + 10 TG channels, which are stacked in two browser windows. But it was quickly discovered that the energy is seriously overdrafted and the information is highly repetitive – many ‘remote aggregation stations’ capture the data of electric ducks and V2EXs from each other, and the jobs of Web3 often appear in the regular remote community and Web3 special stations at the same time. Every time I switch between dozens of sites, I often see the same batch of JD.
So I did three rounds of subtraction: first cut off the traditional recruitment website and the low-efficiency small aggregation station, and then deduplicate the TG channel according to ‘whether to provide exclusive information’, and finally list the two ‘channel discovery sources’ separately for maintenance with low-frequency rhythm.10 core post sites + 5 TG channels + 2 discovery sources, covering domestic remote, php/go vertical, web3 track and overseas direction. This article is the ‘Information Acquisition Guide’ that I have set for myself, whether it is a full-time, freelance or independent development, it all depends on it to feed clues.
The following flowchart visualizes the three-speed rhythm and the information sources that are responsible for each other:

flowchart LR
    A[远程求职信息源] --> B[每日·被动接收<br/>TG 频道 5 个]
    A --> C[每周三·主动精筛<br/>岗位网站 10 个]
    A --> D[每月一次·渠道发现<br/>导航源 2 个]

    B --> B1[远程工作者]
    B --> B2[远程工作AI情报站]
    B --> B3[中高端IT技术招聘]
    B --> B4[海外远程/到岗技术招聘]
    B --> B5[DeJob Web3 招聘]

    C --> C1[Remote China 聚合]
    C --> C2[电鸭 / V2EX / 远程.work / Larajobs / StudyGolang / Golangprojects]
    C --> C3[DeJob / Rebase Issues / ABetterWeb3]

    D --> D1[greatghoul/remote-working<br/>channels 目录]
    D --> D2[platform.work-work.org<br/>Web3 平台导航]

Part 1: Core Job Website (Active Search)

Press ‘One-stop Aggregation/Language Vertical / Web3 Track’ three dimensions to keep the following 10 sources. Each one has been compared, either the information is exclusive, or the corresponding end of the double stack of the counterpart.

1. One-stop aggregation (in place of brushing countless small websites)

• Remote China (Remote-China.com)
  • Reason for selection: The aggregation station maintained by the V2EX senior developer Greatghoul has collected and summarized the recruitment information of mainstream remote communities in China (V2EX, Duck, etc.). Looking at this station can cover most of the public remote positions in China, and V2EX’s Jobs nodes and those messy secondary aggregation stations can be deleted.

2. Language Vertical (PHP / Go double stack)

• Electric duck community
  • Reason for selection: The first stop of domestic remote work. Although the aggregation station can see its data, the interactivity and real-time of the electric duck itself are the best.
• v2ex
  • Reason for selection: Although Remote China has aggregated V2EX recruitment information, the aggregation station cannot capture the core ‘community interaction atmosphere’ and ‘instant discussion’ of V2EX. It was added not only to watch JD, but also to dive in the post. Many invisible remote outsourcing private orders and technical partnership opportunities are often hidden in the comment area of daily technical exchanges or sharing posts. Here, the technical acuity can be maintained, and the communication efficiency of real-time replies and professionalism under the post is irreplaceable.
• Remote.work (yuancheng.work)
  • Reason for selection:This is an independent remote work recruitment platform, not an aggregation station that captures data – the positions are directly published by the company in the station. When Greatghoul shares remote opportunities on Douban, ‘remote.work’ is referenced as an independent information source, not crawled from other places.
• larajobs
  • Reason for selection: Replaced the original LearnKu recruitment section – the latter has too few opportunities. LaraJobs is the most established special recruitment station in the Laravel ecosystem. Almost all the positions are full-time and contract systems in PHP/Laravel. For my PHP main stack, this is the most suitable entrance.
• studygolang recruitment section
  • Reason for selection: The vertical community of the domestic GO circle, the efficiency of post communication is much higher than that of a comprehensive platform for finding a needle in a haystack, which is suitable for domestic GO remote opportunities.
• GolangProjects (GolangProjects.com)
  • Reason for selection: One of the earliest GO special recruitment stations in the world, with a lot of job accumulation, support filtering by ‘Remote Only’. The purpose of adding this station is to make up for the remote Shanghai GO remote area – the ceiling of domestic GO posts is limited, and the salary and remote friendliness of overseas remote GO posts (especially Web3, cloud native, observable direction) are better.

3. Web3 track (remotely intensive, suitable for freelance and entrepreneurial exploration)

• Crown Chain Community (learnblockchain.cn)
  • Reason for selection: This is one of the Web3 developer communities with the highest quality content and the longest operation time in China. Since the establishment of the website in 2017, a large number of systematic blockchain technology blogs, Chinese documents and questions and answers have been accumulated. Although it comes with not many jobs in the recruitment section, I added it mainly as a ‘learning entrance’ – its web3 learning roadmap, evm/solana/move various ecological tutorials, and DeFi, zero-knowledge proof, smart contract security and other topics just make up for the system knowledge that I lack when extending from the PHP/GO backend to Web3. It is not a channel for direct brushing.
• Dejob (dejob.ai)
  • Reason for selection: At present, one of the most complete and fastest-updated platforms in the Web3 industry, well-known projects and teams basically post JD here, there are many R&D posts, full-time remote and Bounty bounty tasks, and are very friendly to freelancers.
• Rebase Network Who is Hiring (GitHub Issues)
  • Reason for selection: The Web3 circle attaches great importance to open source and geek culture. Rebase’s GitHub Issues are a place for many small teams and start-up projects to directly recruit people. (Search golang/php directly on issues)
• AbetterWeb3 (BetterWeb3.Notion.Site)
  • Reason for selection: The notion recruitment form for community maintenance, the Chinese web3 project has a lot of direct recruitment information, and the update is stable, which is convenient to screen full-time/part-time and language directly in the table.

Note: The three stations of the Web3 website of the website part are used for ‘active refinement’, and the Web3 channel of the following TG part is the ‘active + passive’ dual channel of the same track, not two sets of duplicate messages – TG There are only push sources that do not overlap the website.

Part 2: Telegram Channel Subscription (Passive Received)

Actively brushing the website takes energy, and the TG channel is like an accurate information flow recommender. In the original 10 channels, many of the websites and the above websites are secondary distribution of the same batch (such as the AbetterWeb3’s TG channel and the notion website are completely duplicated), and there are some channels with small subscription volume and low signal-to-noise ratio. After deduplication, click ‘Whether to provide exclusive information that the website cannot cover’ and reduce it to 5.
I will re-adjust this part later, the following is the current lite version.

• Remote Worker (23,900 subscriptions): Greatghoul operation, synchronize the Remote-China essence, as the main push source for comprehensive aggregation.
• Remote work AI information station (600 subscriptions): After the subscription, it will automatically push the counterpart post based on the matching degree. It is the only channel that ‘doesn’t need to manually flip’ at present.
• Mid-high-end IT technology recruitment (6,200 subscriptions): Domestic mid-to-high-end direction, as a backup source for expansion to higher-level positions.
• Overseas Remote/Arrival Technology Recruitment (7,500 Subscriptions): The main push source of overseas direction is also a window for contacting overseas outsourcing projects (there are also 3 overseas channels of the same kind, the content is highly overlapping, and this one is reserved first).
• Dejob—Web3 Recruitment and Job Search Channel (44,500 subscriptions): Corresponding to the DeJob website, the Web3 track must pay attention, the largest subscription volume and the fastest update.

removed: AbetterWeb3 Recruitment TG (with Notion Website duplication), overseas technical recruitment/remote/resident, overseas IT technology recruitment｜Overseas programmer work (with reserved sea External channel overlap), remote job JD, remote working HUB (small subscription volume, duplicate with ‘remote worker’).

The third part: the source of channel discovery (monthly inspection, used to discover new channels)

The first 10 websites + 5 TG channels solve the ‘daily feeding clues’, but the remote and web3 recruitment ecology changes rapidly, and new platforms will appear every once in a while. So I kept the two navigation sources I used when collecting channels at first, and the positioning was‘Discover the source of new channels’ instead of ‘entry for posts’——They itself does not directly send jd, but summarizes ‘where to find jd’, and the frequency can be pressed to once a month.

• Greatghoul/remote-working (channels directory)
  • github address:https://github.com/greatghoul/remote-working/tree/master/channels
  • Location: One of the open source warehouses with the most complete domestic remote work resources, the channels directory continues to include new remote work websites, communities, and channels, and is jointly maintained by Greatghoul and the community. It is the source of discovering new remote channels in China.
  • How to use?: Click in every month to see the Channels directory and recent Commit, and there are new channels to evaluate whether it is worth joining the list of core websites; usually do not need to look at the post.
• platform.work-work.org
  • Location: The aggregation navigation of the Web3 recruitment platform summarizes the entrances of Dejob, AbetterWeb3, Rebase and other Web3 recruitment stations, which is the source of discovering new Web3 channels.
  • How to use?: Also check once a month to see if there is a newly launched Web3 recruitment platform or Bounty platform, and then decide whether to include the core list; Yes, there is no need to go around the navigation station.

These two sources are the roles of ‘Gatekeeper’ – it is guaranteed that it will not miss out new good channels due to simplification, and will not take up daily energy. The iteration rhythm of the core list is driven by them: discover new channels → evaluate → replace or add a new 8+5 inventory.

Part 4: Refresh the rhythm

With TG’s passive push + two low-frequency inspections of the two discovery sources, the rhythm is adjusted to ‘day passive + weekly active + monthly inspection’ three gears.

🗓️ Daily (passive reception, fragmented time)

Swipe 5 TG channels at your fingertips. If you encounter the title with ‘php’, ‘go’, ‘golang’, ‘backend’ or ‘bounty’, you can click to see it; if you want to forward it to ‘favorites’, it will be processed uniformly later. Among them, the ‘remote work AI information station’ will be automatically pushed according to the matching degree, and there is basically no need to actively turn it.

🗓️ Every Wednesday (active fine sieve, centralized delivery, about 1 hour)

10 core job sites in centralized opening:

• First 20 minutes: Scan Larajobs (PHP), StudyGolang + GolangProjects (GO), to see if there are any new counterpart positions or outsourcing lists in the vertical station in the past week.
• 20 minutes in between: Open Remote China, Remote .Work, Ctrl+F and search for ‘PHP’, ‘GO’, and fish out the domestic comprehensive remote post that TG may have missed;
• 20 minutes after: Immersive browsing Web3 three stations (DeJob, Rebase Issues, AbetterWeb3), centrally reading JD, and judging the reliability of the project.
  The sky will come out on Wednesday, and we will deal with the clues collected this week: submit a full-time resume, reply to outsourcing needs, or chat with potential entrepreneurial projects.

🗓️ once a month (channel inspection, about 30 minutes)

Open 2 discovery sources: the channels directory of the greatghoul/remote-working, platform.work-work.org. Check whether there are any new remote/web3 recruitment channels in the near future, and decide whether to replace or add a new core list after evaluation. This file is not for the purpose of brushing the post, but purely to prevent the aging of the information source.

at the end

Cutting off duplicate noise and only staring at high-quality information sources is to really put the energy saved in the blade – reviewing Go’s concurrency and microservices, improving open source projects, receiving outsourcing lists, and blogging technology. The two sources of discovery are preserved as ‘goalkeepers’ to ensure that they will not miss good channels that emerge from the new emergence while streamlining. Regardless of whether it is a full-time remote, freelance or independent development, this ‘8+5+2’ minimalist board is my multi-line parallel.