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Ask HN: Finding an Hourly Job?

5 points| mholubowski | 1 year ago

Howdy. Long story short, I’m a solid engineer. I’ve been working on my own projects the last 4 years. They make about $15,000/mo.

I want an hourly engineering job to subsidize income and to have something else to work on.

Could someone recommend how they’d go about finding that? I know there’s a great win-win matchup out there, but I’m not sure how to efficiently go about finding it.

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codingdave|1 year ago

Recruiters. Most of the calls I get are for hourly contracts doing boring dev work for the corporations in my area. I tend to ignore them all, but if you are just looking for some basic hourly work, respond to the recruiters who spam/cold call you.

mholubowski|1 year ago

Hey, I genuinely appreciate your reply. I hope you have a good week kind stranger.

leros|1 year ago

Do those pay competitively compared to a good salaried position at a big US company? On a per hourly basis of course. Most of what I see in hourly positions is far below what I'm used to.

anonzzzies|1 year ago

Not what you asked, but you thought about selling your projects? That would at least be a few million: ETFs would then make you quite a bit more than you make now.

mholubowski|1 year ago

Hey! I don’t think it would be a few million. If someone offered me a few million then yes I would sell.

(solidaffiliate.com and AnalyticsWP.com are the two active projects)

codegeek|1 year ago

Sorry but you don't get few million for projects doing 15k/month.

zerr|1 year ago

You can retire early in most of the countries with that income.