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You know PHP? I'm hiring part time. Can be 100% remote if in the US. I know other people looking for P/T devs all the time for mostly one-off client projects.
For people who are already doing part-time dev work, do you find that people are curious and/or suspicious about why you're doing it part time? ie, "If you're actually good at this, why aren't you a full time employee or consultant?"
First, talk to people looking for developers. That part is fairly easy: just about any networking event in NYC has a dozens of people looking for devs. I don't know where you're located, but the same is probably true for your area. Once you're talking, convince them that working with you will be easier/quicker/more-effective than working with anyone else. That's the hard part, which definitely requires some practice.…
That's a nice idea. Do you connect people just in the USA or outside as well?
First, talk to people looking for developers. That part is fairly easy: just about any networking event in NYC has a dozens of people looking for devs. I don't know where you're located, but the same is probably true for your area. Once you're talking, convince them that working with you will be easier/quicker/more-effective than working with anyone else. That's the hard part, which definitely requires some practice.…
Do you have companies that focus on social good, or at least avoid things that are socially bad (e.g. advertising)?
Currently, we're looking for devs for a company that helps museums keep track of their collections, another that makes it easier for people to cook healthy meals at home, and a third that's encouraging universities to incorporate 3d-printing into their curriculum.
So there's quite a bit of variety in the types of projects we take on. Social good is a vague concept that means different things to different people, but we can certainly try to match you with projects that fit your interests.
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Do you have companies that focus on social good, or at least avoid things that are socially bad (e.g. advertising)?
Why do you think advertising is socially bad? There are many products I would not have discovered without advertising.
Advertising is just the worst, helping get information into the market efficiently, ugh!
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I keep expecting to see a win-win industry where introverts with skills revenue share with extroverts who can sell their skills. Specialization is a good thing, it seems inefficient for people who don't enjoy networking to need to do it in order to make money.
But then the best extroverts will want to work with the best introverts and vice versa, so the introverts still have to "sell" themselves!
You know PHP? I'm hiring part time. Can be 100% remote if in the US. I know other people looking for P/T devs all the time for mostly one-off client projects.
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It runs the gamut, of course -- someone's out there building an awesome campaign to advertise a blood drive, right now. But most advertising basically using psychological tricks to push you to want & buy all kinds of stuff that really make a negligible difference in your quality of life, if they add anything at all. Worse, the best way to convince you that you need X is to convince you that you have an X-shaped hole…
Why do you think blood drives are good? Why wouldn't it be better if the standard thing was to pay for blood? If it was typical to pay donors for this kind of thing (organs too), wouldn't that better ensure plenty of supply than making charity the primary source?
One obvious way -- suppose you're filling out a medical history form before providing blood or an organ, and you know that ticking "yes" to a question will disqualify you. You really need the money -- will you be honest?
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odesk? I thought that was realistically only for low-cost overseas outsourcing.
Yeah; I would recommend staying away from odesk unless you are overseas and can live off of $10 to $20 an hour.