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Ask HN: Finding an Hourly Job?

by mholubowski on 5/25/24, 11:48 AM with 15 comments

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.

  • by codingdave on 5/25/24, 12:25 PM

    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.

  • by anonzzzies on 5/25/24, 12:56 PM

    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.

  • by zerr on 5/26/24, 4:57 PM

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