1 year? Try to nail it in 2 months. Try to learn JSP/Servlets, Spring, Hibernate or Play! framework. Showcase something on GAE. Usually money chases talent, so give ur best at building skills.
Sorry, English is not my first language. I meant to say that I dont have any income, and whatever income I get from rent+savings will buy food for 2 years.
> whatever income I get from rent+savings will buy food for 2 years.
Most people I know would consider that to be a pretty good financial situation, 'broke' is the opposite of that.
What you should do if you can is as long as you haven't found extra income (though the response in this thread suggests that won't be a problem for long) to cut down any and all expenses that are not an absolute requirement. That way you extend your runway while it still matters, if you do that when the two years of savings are almost up it will be too late. Like that you might be able to stretch two years in to two years and change.
Another thing you could do it to consider to liquidate your asset, the house you've got and are renting out. I realize it is a source of income for you, but it also represents another chunk of savings. Dont do that until you absolutely have to though!
Best of luck with all this, I hope your fortunes will change.
I am good with 20-25k rupees (450-550$)/month. As i said, i was a tester,I have little ruby and java knowledge. But i can also learn python if required for work.
In that case, I'd highly suggest learning the ins and outs of ruby or python. I'm sure you could get an offshore job with a company for that sort of compensation, or do freelance work to get in that range. Good luck!
Knowing something specific in QA (Load/Automation testing) can get you a good job in most of the IT services in India. Please dont join a training institute that will teach you that because you are just going to end up paying the training institutes and not getting much in return (including the "guaranteed" job placements).
Id also recommend attending some tech events -- Chennai Geeks (http://blog.chennaigeeks.com/) or ilugc (http://www.ilugc.in/). You will get a chance to meet people who have startups and would be ready to take your services, maybe for a lesser salary than what you get at big SIs. But what you learn there will definitely help you in the future.
Join a bigger outsourcing companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro or HCL. There are jobs galore for people of all skill's in these places. If you have some knowledge on automation and scripting for the automation testing it will help your job search very well.
Note that they do well because they charge seriously low-ball rates. The wages are probably good after the currency conversion compared to what's available in India, but don't go in expecting to find any decent-paying jobs. This might be a good short-term fix, but I wouldn't expect it to provide stable income for 5-6 years anyway, and the income will probably not be very good, especially since you will be competing with other offshore'd developers. Practically the only reason anyone uses offshore coders is because they cost 1/3 what American coders cost.
I'm aware; I was working under the assumption that he'd want decent wages even though he is India because 1) he has expensive medical things to pay for and 2) because he wants a stable income for 5-6 years, seemingly something salaried or professional-level. You don't usually get those kind of rates on Elance et al. I wanted to point out that it would be especially hard to him to get good rates on these sites, since if someone is willing to pay a respectable wage, they usually don't want to use an offshore developer.
You could consider Aricent as a company to apply for;
Alot of european compnies are outsourcing to Aricent most of software and firmware development.
I work for one of the largest mobile equipment provider; i was a firmware developer and now i was forced to switch to another kind of activity because all the development activity was given to Aricent.
Hurry up, maybe in few years all this activty will move somewhere else in the world.
