On the other hand, people pay first of all for working solutions. If you keep building robust and simple solutions, your managers will see it eventually - even though many managers don't recognize design talent when they see it, for fear of having to increase your salary.
Or the incompetent ones aren't seeing it because their metric is in the lines of code written, whereas a good developer always avoids writing unneeded code - this can be extended to other areas as well - people really good at solving concurrency issues for example, avoid concurrency issues like the plague they are. If that's the case, then it's time to search for something better. I live in Romania, our situation is similar, but I discovered that I have no problems in finding interesting work remotely - I stopped doing that because it's boring for me to not have colleagues nearby and found a small local company that's pretty cool. But yeah, you don't have to stay within the local market if you can't find something you like.
How do you go about getting remote clients? I am keen to work remotely for a few reasons. Seems that you need a portfolio, but all my work is in house (though I am working on a small app to show I can code to a decent standard).
On the other hand, people pay first of all for working solutions. If you keep building robust and simple solutions, your managers will see it eventually - even though many managers don't recognize design talent when they see it, for fear of having to increase your salary.
Or the incompetent ones aren't seeing it because their metric is in the lines of code written, whereas a good developer always avoids writing unneeded code - this can be extended to other areas as well - people really good at solving concurrency issues for example, avoid concurrency issues like the plague they are. If that's the case, then it's time to search for something better. I live in Romania, our situation is similar, but I discovered that I have no problems in finding interesting work remotely - I stopped doing that because it's boring for me to not have colleagues nearby and found a small local company that's pretty cool. But yeah, you don't have to stay within the local market if you can't find something you like.