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The only people I've seen successfully pull this off are people who worked full time for years, then were able to negotiate a move to part-time.

Consulting is theoretically "part-time". I got by in college doing part-time consulting, but that's only because I knew the person running the business. In reality, the good part-time gigs are going to be projects that you worked on full-time, that then transitioned into maintenance.

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Consulting can also be an oscillation between having way too many hours or having not enough hours or no hours sometimes.

As a long-time consultant, the truth is that unless you aim for more hours, the drought periods are likely to kill you.

This is the most practical way. Put in the time, become indispensable, then figure out an arrangement that meets you and your employers needs.

I have had a few contract remote gigs and they always end in the employer going broke or me moving on once it becomes clear they are just going to burn their funding.

The wisdom during the boom times was to job hop and maximize your compensation, now that we are in a more realistic slowed down economy building job security and comfort seem way more wise.

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