Ask HN: What job offers most free time?

I believe many of us don't have enough time for personal projects/startups because of the daytime jobs. Could we find us a job which would allow us to code during work hours? Some of the examples I was thinking of are a librarian, security guard or clerk at a shop that people rarely visit. Would you consider something like that yourself?

Find a job that only has 8 hours a day work expectation. It is rare nowadays, but possible.

Software developer for a US university or local government agency.

My wife is a school librarian, and she has less free time than I do. If you're just a reference librarian, then possibly. But then you need to have your MLA in order to be called a librarian.

> Some of the examples I was thinking of are a librarian, security guard or clerk at a shop that people rarely visit.

If you're a halfway decent programmer, you can easily get consulting gigs that will earn you multiples of what you will ever make at these jobs per unit of time.

You could do something like consult for a week and take the next three weeks to work on your project, or you could consult for a month and take the next few months off to work on your project. Your financial situation will be similar or better when compared to the low-paid jobs.

The low-paid grinder jobs you mention are definitely not worth doing in terms of money or time.