Ask HN: Finding an Hourly Job?

[mholubowski]

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.

[codingdave]

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]

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

[leros]

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]

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]

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]

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

[zerr]

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