I make about 0-300k/year fixing apps that others either weren't able to finish or where they architected themselves into scaling issues. Aside from that, I am a part time programming consultant who makes about 80k a year (I have a chronic illness so I spend a lot of time not working, and it's helpful for me to work in intense bursts with rests in between. It's difficult for me to have normal full time employment in t…
For someone with health issues that can't work full time (or has to work freelance) what tech skills would you recommend?
I recommend API development and not front end development. I recommend companies that don't have on-call requirements for engineers. I recommend against directly working with a company that has agile processes, if you can manage it.
You'll be fine if you can produce, but if you can only produce on the week level and not the day level, you'll have troubles with companies that want to talk about the progress you're making day to day.