Hacker News Reader

Comment by spoiledtechie | Hacker News Reader

In all honesty, I work part time on remote jobs. I have a lot of debt I need to pay off, family medical.

I have for the 2 years, applied to 100+ jobs a week. When I don't have work or when I find my current work teetering off, I sit down every Monday, go to 40+ job sites I have collected over time and just apply to as many as possible within the 2 hours or so.

Its hit or miss, but I tend to find something within the month, someone looking for part time remote work.

I am always looking, but since its part time, I get filtered out a lot due to employers wanting full time folks.

Just Hustle. Keep Hustling. Don't stop hustling. It helps me.

View on HN

I got tired of the part-time contract work. It was frustrating to me that I had to spend about half my time on overhead instead of just working. I had to find jobs, negotiate jobs, manage scope, manage expectations, manage clients, time tracking and billing. It was kinda fun to bill $125/hr, but with all that overhead and taxes it worked out to less than a $125k/yr salary.

In the end I took a regular salaried job that paid better and I got to spend more time doing what I loved: programming.

How do you apply for such vast number of jobs? For me, applying for the job is a tedious process of researching about the company, products, team members, CEO and CTO, and only after that crafting a cover letter and attaching CV.

One of my companies has been growing and our single developer is leaving.

I've been hard at work preparing everything for remote developers to be able to help us out where ever they are and how for as much hours as we can afford them to work. My idea is to scale the company based on a dynamic remote team, where knowledge is shared and only ideas come from within the company itself.

Please tell me where you have been looking for remote work? I'm dying for some good parttimers.

The Who is Hiring threads on HN have been pretty useful - you tend to find likeminded people.

If you need any part-time assistance with DevOps-related topics (Continuous Delivery/Integration, etc.), I'd be interested in hearing more - my email is in my profile.

For every 100 jobs you apply for, how many responses do you get, and how many interviews?

I get maybe ~5 responses.

This is interesting. Do you apply for part-time jobs specifically?

Both full and part time. There are not enough part time gigs to go around. So hoping some full time folks would take a part time guy.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com