Ideally I want a reliable project where I can invest 8-12 hours per week. One idea I had was to offer my services to companies looking to fill full time roles as a 'bridge' employee until they find their full time candidate (I could even participate in the interview process).
I guess I'm looking for a 'long term gig'. Am I nuts? Or is there a job board out there for companies/startups that need just a bit of extra help?
1) Get a raise. There should be 0 reason for a software engineer to need a second job.
2) Spend less. You will never make enough money if your expenses keep increasing
#2 I'm trying but the current administration just wont have it. Like for example, the price of caviar DOUBLED at Whole Foods. Ridiculous! Also, the gas pump just stops at $150 when I try to fill up my Mercedes SUV.
I was thinking maybe a podcast explaining the tools I use.
My partner sells organization plans/charts on Etsy and makes more than beer money off of it. She just does it for fun and throws whatever she makes online. Sometimes it doesn't sell, other times it sells like 3-4 units, and rarely she'll have a hit that sells hundreds.
It's actually pretty cool that every few days, Etsy throws a two figure check in our bank account.
Think weekly planners and calendars or whiteboard kanban boards.
A friend recently suggested I try this service which has contracts as low as 10 hours a week. http://gigster.com
I mean, if you're a company and you want some development done, you probably don't want it taking 5 times as long as it need be. You'd rather hire someone 5 days a week (even for a short period of time) rather than someone 1 day a week.
But for advising the teams companies already have about something they don't know about but you do, it could still make sense for the company. E.g. for a while I helped quite a few companies do MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 transitions (a while ago now obviously!) It was something I became quite good at but companies didn't want to build up the internal knowledge because they only needed to do it once. I would come in and discuss their situation, advise them, come back a bit later to see how they were getting on and review what they'd done, etc.
Focus on things you're good at that other companies might not have knowledge of. Particular programming languages, particular tasks such as optimization or software design, particular databases, particular clouds perhaps. Or migrations and transitions where it doesn't make sense for the company to build up knowledge as they only do it once.
> looking for ways to supplement my income
what? Dont Software Engineers generally have huge salaries? Maybe the issue is not on the income side, but the spending side
Whether it is inflation, consumerism, or just greed, something is wrong.
BigTech, non-tech BigCo, mid-sized non-tech?
I cannot see how a manager/director at a BigCo would be able approve something like this since everything is standardized (like base pay at each level)
