I searched job listings from HN “Who’s hiring” posts with some third-party tools, filtering to only show me jobs where they were looking for people with experience in my favourite programming language.

I read through the job listings and contacted the ones that seemed interesting.

Among them was a company of whom I am a customer, and who I like.

That company ended up hiring me and I’ve been working for them as a contractor for 11 months now.

I hope that I can stay with them for several years :)