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Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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post #7

Congratulations, I love it! To me it would be very valuable to have a filter on location requirements - if you have such information available of course. Like, who needs office presence (and where), who is okay part-time, who is offering full remote... but once again, great thing!

Great idea. I'll get on this. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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post #4

Always thought that someone should do something like this but for part-time marketing/comms/content jobs. I'm sure there are men in the following position too, but in my circles there are loads of 30-40yo women returning to work after maternity leave and looking for 2-3 days/week, often in marketing and related jobs. On the other side of the coin, there'd be a lot of small businesses sick of paying an agency but unab…

This rarely works in fields where they hire full time salary employees. The reason being that the part time employee is still very expensive in a lot of fixed ‘per employee’ cost areas like hardware and licenses combined with the fact that the full time salary person is supposed to be available to get the job done even it that involves some overtime or just off hours work, things part time people are notorious for be…

I'm talking small business. Hardware would be employee's own laptop. Software in those fields would be a pittance.

If I was a bastard who wanted value for money, I'd hire those part-time mums. From what I've seen, they end up feeling obliged to work out of hours, so you'd effectively get 0.8 FTE while paying for 0.4-0.6. Roles like social media or content writing with scheduling involved instantly creeps into days off. Horrible approach from an employer, but like I said, if I was a bastard.

Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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post #4

Always thought that someone should do something like this but for part-time marketing/comms/content jobs. I'm sure there are men in the following position too, but in my circles there are loads of 30-40yo women returning to work after maternity leave and looking for 2-3 days/week, often in marketing and related jobs. On the other side of the coin, there'd be a lot of small businesses sick of paying an agency but unab…

I suspect a fair few of the short to long-term contract positions I see advertised are to cover someone's parental leave.

Content though definitely. I tend to see more short-term/part-time content creation positions than I do eng ones.

Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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I wish you the best of luck and will be keeping a bookmark to check back frequently. I would love some part time work but having done the consultant grind for a long time I’m just exhausted by the process of finding it. I would love a marketplace I could keep tabs on and pick things up when they make since.

Thanks! And I feel you. Occasionally I've wanted to pick up some stuff part-time for some extra cash and finding it is few and far between.

I created a mail-chimp subscription which I'll get up and running as soon as I figure out how, but anyone can sign up now.

I'm hoping to get a ton more filters though so people can only get notified about positions that actually interest them.

Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

#18

Thanks for making this! Would you mind sharing what sources this looks at, or are you keeping that proprietary?

A few I'd like to keep to myself, but if you poke around it's obviously no secret that stack overflow contributes a fair bit.

The code is some frankenstein monster of a few failed projects I've created over the years, but so far it's doing its job!

Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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post #6

Full-time remote jobs don't require a full-time commitment

Sure they do - even if the workload does not demand that I sit in my chair in front of my screen all day, I do need to be committed to be available. If a project hits a crunch, or some crisis arises, and I say that I'm too busy with other commitments to do my job, that is a major problem.

Re: Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

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post #6

Full-time remote jobs don't require a full-time commitment

A lot of us have integrity. We would like part time work but are not willing to lie and steal from our employer to get it.

Employers are generally paying for your output not the hours spent.
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