Please don't take what I'm going to say personally. The splash screen of the app looks amazing.
Here's my issue: watching baseball seems like an epic waste of time. And sports athletes with their huge contracts is profane at a time when whole families are homeless.
Sigh. Sorry for the negativity. Anyway, don't you think there should be a more creative and practical implementation? Why not merge pro baseball stats with programming concepts? Or instead of pro baseball players, use actual startup enterpreneurs and pit them against each other in some way.
These are just ideas off the top of my head. All I am saying is challenge yourself to create something brave and new with baseball.
I personally don't know the answer to that question. But since you are here, and so am I, go ahead and spill the beans. I'm curious to know what you are offering.
For the future, I suggest you demonstrate your writing deliverables via a helpful and/or interesting article.
Make a big stink online. Start naming names. I'm serious. Take this thing public. Leverage your social media. Talk to the newspapers. Call the local radio stations.
Sounds like a confidence issue. With more experience under your belt, you can go into an interview feeling in command of the situation.
When you feel truly confident in your skills, in interview situations you'll make it sound like the only rational thing they can do is hire you. That kind of confidence will come with time.
I couldn't get past this line: "the ordeal of attempting to convince someone that I have something of value, and that they should pay me to access it, was very new to me".
I'm not trying to be mean but, how old is the author? How much work experience does he have?
When I was 12 years old I went knocking door to door with my snowshovel in the dead of winter, trying to convince people I had something of value to offer. When I was 14 I convinced a local pizza parlor I had something of value to offer and got my first "real" job.
Trying to convince others of your value and economic worth is a daily affair for most people. It's an accurate way to look at the situation. It shouldn't be a hardship.
You're forgetting about depression Patrick. That can really cloud the mind and hurt productivity. And what about job search? Job search can be full-time in and of itself.
Trust me, if you are married and unemployed (and once upon a time I was both), your SO isn't going to let you sit in front of the computer and learn a programming language for 8 hrs a day while the car gets repo'd.
The EFF should not defend this nutjob. How can someone in good conscience support EFF when they support violence and insanity?