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Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by CrazyPyroLinux »

cardanome wrote: post #87
CrazyPyroLinux wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm reminded of Margaret Thatcher's response to this: "He'd rather the poor were poorer, as long as the rich were less rich."[1] Every ethical dollar earned is a byproduct of value creation. Maybe you meant something more like "as long as he's not ripping off his customers," but otherwise that's an odd thing to say in response to someone who makes good money but is still looking for side jobs. [1] https://www.youtube…

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Did you unironically make an ad hominem?

Well it sounds like you got it figured out what's best for everyone's health, ethics, and economics. Thankfully we have wise people to tell us what we can and can't work on...

Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by eliseumds »

Joeboy wrote: post #89
returningfory2 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the neighborhood of New York City I live in, buying a 2 bedroom apartment requires you to have a higher yearly income than $250k (~= £200k). The simple desires of (a) wanting space for family and (b) wanting to live in a specific place, can push you to want to earn higher salaries.

Yeah you're right actually, glancing at Rightmove (UK property site), and going by the standard 4.5x mortgage test, you're probably not going to get a decent family home in Central-ish London on £200k. Shit's fucked up. Edit: To be clear the repayments on a £1m mortgage would "only" be like £60k a year, you only need £>200k to initially buy the place.

Yep. And £200k/y is about £120k/y net. That'd be tough for a family with kids.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by irsagent »

An idea would be bug bounties. They are great for free time, because you can always do it on your own time, and in the end you can get paid for submitting bugs. Bugcrowd and hackerOne are great platforms to do such bug bounties.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by jinglejangley »

Beltiras wrote: post #92

There's no easy way to do that. You have to market yourself as worth the money. You are absolutely right about fiverr, upwork and similar outlets will not bring clients that pay good money and they are usually more demanding than when you get your name into a managers rolodex (contact list is the modern equivalent I suppose). A little fake-it-till-you-make-it might bring you some of the way there. Try making a webpag…

Thanks! To be honest, the replies to this thread have just solidified that a side gig is more work than it's worth haha.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by jinglejangley »

mywittyname wrote: post #95
jinglejangley wrote: post #13

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I'm already earning near that compensation, was just looking for something on the side as well :)

You're chasing pennies with a side-gig. If you're already at the top of market in terms of pay, it's unlikely a side-gig is going bring in enough to satisfy your ambitions. Why not start your own business? The upside is much better. Yeah, it might fail, but you can decide to start another one what you learned.

Yeah, it seems like I had an idealistic view of what a side gig would be, whereas it's a lot more work than I wish to spend on it.

I'm happy in my day job; it's secure, I'm paid well and I get a lot of time with my family. Starting my own business would put family time in jeopardy which isn't an option, especially as I'd have to give up my main income.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by yitchelle »

As @loudouncodes mentioned, no easy way but to network and to market yourself. But you also need to consider which aspect of yourself you want to sell as the side gig.

* Would you write a book to impart your knowledge to the readers?

* Would you sell your physical hours in delivering work products?

* Would you sell your advice via consulting?

Many ways to cut this fruit, and still have it taste good. Best of luck on your ventures.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

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Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe »

actfrench wrote: post #81

A good number of people are making quite a fortune tutoring coding online if that's something you are interested in. I assume you are good with kids if you have one. What hourly rate are you looking for? I may be interested in in giving you some extra work as we have a couple families at Modulo looking for coding tutoring. Feel free to reach out. Very easy to find me from my bio.

> All tools are secular and have been vetted by learning specialists.

In the alphabet book is A for activist or agnostic? Secular could mean more than one thing.

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