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1) Get a raise. There should be 0 reason for a software engineer to need a second job.
2) Spend less. You will never make enough money if your expenses keep increasing
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Your belief is correct! The contract work I see seems to fall into 2 buckets: short term gig, or temporary 40/hr per week. I'm looking for a some kind of middle ground: long term 8/hr week.
I think you'd need to be a specialist and advisor in something that a company needs and currently isn't good at. I mean, if you're a company and you want some development done, you probably don't want it taking 5 times as long as it need be. You'd rather hire someone 5 days a week (even for a short period of time) rather than someone 1 day a week. But for advising the teams companies already have about something they…
> looking for ways to supplement my income
what? Dont Software Engineers generally have huge salaries? Maybe the issue is not on the income side, but the spending side
This sounds like contracting. It's a world I'm looking to get into as well. A friend recently suggested I try this service which has contracts as low as 10 hours a week. http://gigster.com
My partner sells organization plans/charts on Etsy and makes more than beer money off of it. She just does it for fun and throws whatever she makes online. Sometimes it doesn't sell, other times it sells like 3-4 units, and rarely she'll have a hit that sells hundreds.
It's actually pretty cool that every few days, Etsy throws a two figure check in our bank account.