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

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Post by ryry »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #24

Great idea! I feel like there is a gap in the market for experiences engineers who want to work for good rates on well defined projects and occasionally (less than 1 month) and don't bother with client management. I've seen some people charge good hourly rates on Upwork but from talking to them there is a lot of friction / time spent in managing clients, chasing payments, filtering out all the low paid jobs. It would…

Yeah I actually built this after having a bit of frustration trying out freelancing platforms. What surprised me is as a freelancer, on some of them, I have to pay to apply to gigs. I mean I get it, but it still doesn't seem right.

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Post by tppiotrowski »

I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back.

That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was structured this way.

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Post by IshKebab »

the_lonely_road wrote: post #8
prawn wrote: 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 think hardware and licenses are minimal costs in most businesses. Desk space is probably more. But I think even that isn't the real reason businesses like full time. It's probably cultural, not wanting to have to hire loads of people, and the difficulty of splitting some jobs between multiple people.

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

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Post by rrggnnlldd »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #43

I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back. That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was stru…

Wow that sounds great. Were you be able to charge overtime?

And since you said "worked", what made you decide to stop popping back to the issues queue at this particular org?

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

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Post by codegeek »

dreyfan wrote: post #20
the_lonely_road wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Depends on the job. If you are in customer support, I don't want you to be working for another company and switch back and forth if you are full time employee. I want you focussed 100% on my company and hence you are paid as a full time employee.

Also, legally you are bound to work for a company according to contracts. I don't want you working for another company on the company's time. It introduces potential liability and risks especially if you are remote.

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

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Post by protomok »

xondono wrote: post #47

This type of site is what always has me considering moving “up” in the stack. Remote work on either hardware or systems level programming (embedded) is almost non existent. Remote and not full-time is even rarer.

SaaS could be a good transition, there are quite a few SaaS shops using C++ for example. Or possibly backend if you're willing to do some cloud based side projects.

Embedded is a lot of fun but IMHO there is more opportunity and compensation up the stack.

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

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Post by jrsj »

dreyfan wrote: post #6

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

I could quite easily do 2 full time jobs simultaneously except that it would be impossible to get them not to schedule overlapping meetings. Wish I had a reliable way around that because I’d love to get paid twice as much for working maybe 50% more since I typically have a decent amount of idle time within a 9-5
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