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Actually, if you work for a large MSP (ie, IBM, CGI, DXC) then you'll probably be able to find a job that fits all of those requirements. They'll undoubtedly have contracts with orgs that just want to outsource managing their infrastructure and that's a pretty easy gig.
I don't know about putting in the least amount of effort for 5 days a week. But what I do know is that in my country, the Netherlands, part-time work is more and more becoming the standard. Already, 75% of women and 30% of men work 32 hours a week or less. In many sectors the fulltime standard has been lowered to 36 hours, which means every other Friday off. I myself started on 40 and will move to 32 hours somewhere…
I'm extremely curious about this from a practical perspective. (Disclaimer: American, so probably not the best work-life perspective) As far as company / coworker expectations, how does this work? Are responsibilities / work adjusted to fit the hours provided? What about being on-call? It seems like something a lot of companies should be taking advantage of, but the desire to own souls fights against it.
And most people simply put their days / hours in their e-mail signature so other colleagues know when to expect a reaction. From personal experience this works fine. Half my team is off every Friday and some also on Wednesdays.
Companies can and do require 36 or 40 hours though, but most of the time vacancies will list something like "24-36" to signal the possibilities.
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edit: for your curiosity: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-arbeidsmark...
It's in Dutch, but as long as you know that 'uur' = 'hour' you can read the charts.
As of 2020, 72% of men worked 35 hours or more (full-time) compared to 26% of women.
Like others, I’d recommend looking into FIRE principles at least, particularly the idea of Safe Withdrawal Rate - basically every $25-30 you have invested = $1/yr you can spend for the rest of your life.
This is an awesome question. I hope someone has good strategies for you. Life should be spent doing the things you find worthwhile, and the fact is, not all of those things are monetizable. Given how esteem- and success driven HN as a platform is... you might not get too many ideas since I suppose people want to maintain their "hireable" status. Success and "loving your job" are more or less empty phrases unless you…
As someone who sympathizes with your comment ("tech stack complex and fugly") and has made moves both ways in terms of salary (high to low for QoL -25%, then low to high again +50%), start with your requirements . OP did a great job of saying "Here's what I need ." Until that's staked out, you don't know what's too little, enough, and too much. But generally, minimizing and controlling costs (critically, through city…
In complex technical niche fields jumping from gig to gig is not that easy, though.
I was perhaps overtly bleak in the above for the benefit of clarity (it's ok not to love your job, but it's also ok to concentrate on things you love and the thing does not need to be your job).
I think devops is great fit for you.
The best I can suggest is sysadmin for some boring government agency. It doesn't fit the "fully remote" part, but otherwise you are free to do whatever you want as long as everything is up and running. You also don't need to manage anyone, although you do have to talk to angry users once in a while.
That would be nice. I'm perfectly content watching htop and adding some VMs once in a while while playing WoW.
Second, look for jobs where your only task is to shepherd some black box and make an occasional change. DBAs, Systems Administrators, Quality Engineers, Middleware Engineers. Plenty of jobs where your only responsibility is to make sure some random commercial software is just... running. If you do it right, you can be working 2 or 3 of these jobs at once and nobody will notice.
Third, look for contract work. Contractors generally are expected to suck at their jobs, and even if you do a piss-poor job of it, they'll just move you to another contract soon afterward. All you have to do is make the bosses happy and you don't have to be productive at all. (This works better in larger contracting companies)
Fourth, put your resume and e-mail out there in public resume-hunting sites. You will get bombarded by random e-mails from headhunters for jobs you aren't qualified for at all. Apply for those positions. Lots of hiring managers are morons. You're bound to get one, it's a numbers game!
Finally, once you get such a job, make sure to come back to HN and complain about how bad your job is. Nothing's more inspiring than under-achievers lamenting their lot in life.