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Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?
#222Unless you already have top of market compensation, I'd focus on interviewing for a higher paying job rather than do more work on the side. Going by the ££ signs I'm assuming you can get a job in London, where you can make >£200k total compensation as a good software engineer.
How would I go about making that kind of money? I'm planning on moving to London next year. My professional background is as a web dev.
I code strictly frontend Typescript/React and have a total comp of about 400k with a base of 210k.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?
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I realized I should clarify “I could find”. I’m in the Washington D.C. Metro area, but I spoke _at least_ once a week everywhere from Richmond to Philadelphia, and occasionally as far as Ohio.
Sounds like you are in my neck of the woods. Trying to get some good side gigs here. Is there any good speaking conferences that you can recommend? Personally, I am much more inclined into govt contracting.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Making a value judgement on someones financial ambition is a little ... weak. Does it really matter? I'm on £200k gross in the UK, outside London ... but i'm not done climbing that mountain. Of course £200k is "enough" for anyone, but that doesn't mean you can't aim higher. Ambition should be celebrated
Share the secret of "£200k gross in the UK, outside London" please because I've never found that outside London and I hate that city :)
Be a contractor charging high day rates in a niche nobody else wants to work in.