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Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers
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#112Screw part time. The whole economy is moving towards part time, gig work, etc and it's terrible for most employees who need good wages and benefits.
> Screw part time. The whole economy is moving towards part time, gig work, etc and it's terrible for most employees who need good wages and benefits.
People want different things. And you normally get either good wages or benefits. This is erring on the side of wages.
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Or, you take a couple contracts and make more than you did full time. This doesn’t add up. If I’m part time 25 hours a week, I can squeeze another 25 hours a week in there. 2x my rate. You can definitely do it.
Ahh yes, the total of... 1 mobile role. I definitely have a chance here. If you fell qualified for the 2 ceo's roles, or the staff Role, you're probably not in a situation where you need 2 jobs.
Same could be said why you’re looking at part time when you need a career.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Global software dev, off-shoring, and out-sourcing have been going strong for decades. The tech market was extraordinarily strong for most of that time.
Like I said, second to ZIRP. The offshoring options now are greater than they have been in the past.
The other part that everyone misses is that the rest of the world now has better infra infra and time to catch up. The amount of people online who can program and speak English has vastly increased.
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The problem isn't part-time hours, which are ideal and actually more in-line with workers' actual labor time. The problem is that companies refuse (and workers refuse to make them) pay high-enough wages.
The problem isn't wages, it's that part time jobs don't come with benefits. Health insurance being tied to employment is maybe the second biggest problem in this country and you almost never see anyone even talk about it. Ever wonder why you see so few disabled start up founders?
Part-time jobs shouldn't come with benefits. Neither should full-time jobs. As you said, "Health insurance being tied to employment is [one of the] biggest problems in this country."
People should be getting paid money for their work, and generally more than they are now.
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These prices seem very low.
The roles seem very high too. I think "part time engineer" and figured these would be small gigs, or temp roles for specific tasks. Not "CTO". Is anyone is a role of lead or higher (or AI engineers in general) having that bad a time finding work?
Plenty of people are qualified to be CTOs but only a small handful of them actually become them.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah but the details don't matter when you say "full time equivilant". Just health insurance alone will be far far far more than you are allowing. Then there's all the tax implications. Like, if you said 2500x I might consider beleiving you. 3000x I'd probably believe you.
Every contractor already knows all this. And those who don't learn quick. I'm not clear what you're arguing here. When I evaluate an hourly rate, I multiply by 2100 and ask myself if this is a reasonable salary & benefits total package. So if my rate is $125 an hour, that comes to $263k, which is a base salary of around $200k plus healthcare, self-employment taxes and sick/vacation time, etc. Now my healthcare costs…
When I read
> My rule of thumb as a contractor is to take the hourly rate x2100 to get an equivalent full-time salary plus benefits, 401k, vacation, etc.
I thought you meant to include everything on top of salary. Reading it again after this thread, maybe you meant to this is the calculation for hourly from full time salary, and then you need to also do ("plus") a calculation for everything else.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every contractor already knows all this. And those who don't learn quick. I'm not clear what you're arguing here. When I evaluate an hourly rate, I multiply by 2100 and ask myself if this is a reasonable salary & benefits total package. So if my rate is $125 an hour, that comes to $263k, which is a base salary of around $200k plus healthcare, self-employment taxes and sick/vacation time, etc. Now my healthcare costs…
When I read > My rule of thumb as a contractor is to take the hourly rate x2100 to get an equivalent full-time salary plus benefits, 401k, vacation, etc. I thought you meant to include everything on top of salary. Reading it again after this thread, maybe you meant to this is the calculation for hourly from full time salary, and then you need to also do ("plus") a calculation for everything else.
x2100 is base salary plus benefits, aka "total compensation."
So if this doesn't cover everything then charge a higher hourly rate for more money, don't change the multiplier.
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Totally agree! We've featured a number of Fractional CISO roles.
I'm curious if anyone has any experience either as a "fractional CISO" or at a company who had one. CISO is famously a "sacrificial lamb" sort of job, and it's certainly never one I would take on on a fractional basis (all of the risk but a lot less of the reward). I could understand having a fractional "security advisor" or "security lead", so maybe I'm just arguing about semantics, but again I'm primarily just inte…
I know someone who actually enjoyed the fractional CISO role. Unless your goal is to move to a less expendable CxO role I actually see it as less of the risk and more of the reward.