I'm looking for something external that uses my programming skills. A new job with a higher salary would be great, but that's not feasible for me right now.
Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
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#2It depends a lot on what your current income is.
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#3Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
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#4Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
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#6Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
That's always been my problem with it: unless you consider $10/hr good pay (and some people do, and there's nothing wrong with that), but $15k at $10/hr is almost another full-time job. If you're in North America, you can get $10/hr or so as a greeter at Wal Mart.
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#7Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#8Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
If the only value you add is 'I can do it cheaper than the other guy' then yes it is a race to the bottom. However, I would strongly urge your consider what type of signaling 'I can do it cheaper than the other guy' sends to serious people who have serious amounts of money to get it done without too much involvement from them.
Re: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?
#9Are you a programmer? Try to find freelancing work..
Isn't most freelance work a race to the bottom? This would be great, but most online job boards seem to go to the lowest bidder (who normally works for $10-12 an hour)
That kind of freelancing is yes, however, finding local clients who you can meet face to face to genuinely provide value to their business and you'll make decent money. Do a few talks at local business meetups on something really simple, like "5 Steps on how to win business online" or something, then just run through things like, get a website up, sign up to social media and update it, get involved in online trade forums, put "how to" videos on youtube and get listed on google places, etc. Theres your talk, and theres easily more than 10k - 15k a year, theres a full time wage.
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#10http://www.mikeperham.com/2013/10/01/how-to-make-100k-in-oss...
The missing step in that post is: "Step 0: Write very popular and useful thing"