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What’s your sector? Have you thought about contracting or consulting? Here in Europe many of these gigs tend to also work part-time. And with that type of arrangement you can also pick individual projects instead of companies that‘d put you in boring and purposeless projects anyways.
I'm not familiar with the tech work situation there... I assume those things are typically full-time in the US, but I have no evidence.
I have used upwork.com sucessfully, and also lost many jobs this way as well. So use the site as an elemEnt of a mixture Particularyly with linkedin.com
Doesn't upwork take a cut + lock you in (ToS means you can't work with upwork clients outside upwork or something - idk if that's enforceable tho)
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Doesn't upwork take a cut + lock you in (ToS means you can't work with upwork clients outside upwork or something - idk if that's enforceable tho)
Interesting. That sounds like a non-compete clause, which for traditional employment is unlawful in California. But if it's for 'gig work' or self-employment (speaking broadly,) I wonder what the law is around that...
Freelancing is as full- or part-time as you want.
Although I've started with UpWork, I don't recommend it for job search anymore, because the quality of clients was low from my experience. A lot of job postings ended up being a race to the bottom with rates. I think WeWorkRemotely is a better option for search, while HN hiring threads are even better.
We've been a fully remote company since inception and put a ton of emphasize on providing every team member with what they need in terms of flexibility and work-life-balance.
We've written an extensive Company Handbook about who we are, how we work and what we do [2]. It's free to download.
We’re proud to say that our average employee stay is four years — more than double the average for our industry.
that's the one danger about the 4-day work week i'm not crazy about.
my guess is, if you had a relatively valuable skillset, say coding of some type that was reasonably in demand for, say, a contract rate in the US that would get you $65/hr or more on a W-2 basis, then you would be able to find some decent, possibly long-term work _if_ you were willing to put in the effort.
what's the effort? start pitching companies. find full-time listings and submit your resume, tell them what you're seeking (20 hours/wk, 4 hrs/day, $50/hr, employed normally, but just part-time instead of full time, presumably no bennies, etc.), and that's about it.
ping 10 companies a day from the "Who's hiring?" threads, and see what you get back, rinse, refine, repeat.
also, pay linkedin $30/mo and ping dev managers directly with your pitch.
and try to talk to an HR-type person at a startup to get the lowdown on what it would actually take to get hired part-time - it might end up being pretty simple, or not, but you'd be in a much better position if you knew, and might not take more than a simple message or phone call, or ask a friend of a friend who is in HR.
whoa, trippy - i didn't know tech companies were going the part-time route already. that's the one danger about the 4-day work week i'm not crazy about. my guess is, if you had a relatively valuable skillset, say coding of some type that was reasonably in demand for, say, a contract rate in the US that would get you $65/hr or more on a W-2 basis, then you would be able to find some decent, possibly long-term work _if…
Online platforms are a race to the bottom in terms of cost; I wouldn't waste my time there, unless you are planning to differentiate yourself and have a significantly higher price point than the average person in your field.