+1 Just for the name. Side quest is exactly what such a thing should be called.
Hmm.. It'a already the name of quite a popular side-loading app/store for VR games. https://sidequestvr.com/
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#52Lol I thought that this was a spinoff of the sidequest app for the oculus quest (which is kind of an app store - really the main none for unofficial content).
Even though the name is very well chosen, expect this confusion to come up more...
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 liabili…
This is HN. It's a bunch of entitled mediocre programmers copy-pasting from stack overflow or automating the process via copilot. We're not talking about your average wage slave.
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#55+1 Just for the name. Side quest is exactly what such a thing should be called.
Hmm.. It'a already the name of quite a popular side-loading app/store for VR games. https://sidequestvr.com/
Yeah. It's also used in some RPG games to denote quests which are done independently of the main quest.
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#56Looks pretty cool.
Also looks like a lot of companies are using it to find FT employees.
If so, you are saving them a lot of money on recruiter fees.
Good job!
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#57Always 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…
It's worked for me for the past 10 years, part-time in engineering at Google, Makani, and Elemeno Health. Not wanting or being able to work a lot of hours doesn't necessarily mean not being flexible on hours. I've known a number of other part-time people at e.g. Google, and they were generally people I'd trust to get stuff done. Often they're time-management masters, due to necessity.
Sure, there's more overhead per working hour. But there's also more mulling-things-over-in-the-shower time per working hour, so for creative work, one can be a lot more effective than you'd think. I also get more sleep and do all my appointments and errands in non-working hours, which improves my duty cycle and performance.
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#58Looks pretty cool. Also looks like a lot of companies are using it to find FT employees. If so, you are saving them a lot of money on recruiter fees. Good job!
Makes sense. Interviewing is a dumpsterfire. The only reliable way I've ever seen hiring work is to actually work with somebody on a project while paying them a fair market rate. Anything that faciliates that type of relationship, like for example having a bunch of developers working non-full time is the closest thing to an answer for hiring there is.
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#59I 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…
What was the company?