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Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my SRE and DevOps experience

by catanama on 9/15/22, 3:02 PM with 1 comments

Hi, I worked as a System Administrator and DevOps for last 10 years, but right now I experienced burnout and had to quit my job. My savings are running out but I still don't feel I'll be able to work full time without it detrimentally affecting my mental health.

I was thinking about doing some tutoring and did some of that for my friends studying IT, and for my mental health it seems optimal, as I like doing it and don't feel mental strain associated with doing my job. I also wrote a Linux tutorial long ago and was thinking about doing more of this as it turns out that I really like to teach, but life and full time job interfered with those plans. For those interested my tutorial is saved here: https://archive.is/xDb8o

Please tell me if you know how I can earn some money doing Linux tutoring and maybe mentoring, maybe through some companies or communities interested in that. I have a decade of experience working with Linux, FreeBSD, computers networks, and so on and so forth up to modern things and practices like Chaos Engineering, AWS, CI/CD, Ansible and so on.

Also I might be able to do some part-time jobs with load of several hours per day, if you know where I should seek for those I'd be grateful too.

  • by xwowsersx on 9/17/22, 7:38 PM

    Assuming you have looked at the seeking usual contractor sites, one idea is to hang around online in places where startup founders and other entrepreneurs hang out. Often times, a small team or single person is winging it trying to get something off the ground without much technical background and you can offer to help them complete a simple project, e.g. set up our AWS vpc, help us deploy this app, etc.