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Where can I find dev contractor jobs?

1 points by jonathanmv ↗ HN
I am working on my own idea at https://autenti.ca and I need to generate some income to keep working on it.

Most of the offers I found are for full-time jobs. It feels unethical to join a company just to leave it after a couple of months. So where do you find short-term contractor jobs?

My main skill is taking mockups/wireframes and making a working product out of it in a timely manner developing, testing, and deploying all front-end (react, redux, bootstrap) and back-end (aws: lambda, dynamo, ecs, emr, sqs, kinesis, and many more)

See my résumé and some recent projects at https://goo.gl/kDAiYP

Thank you all for your suggestions

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gamechangr
I have a friend who took a job at a waiter at TGI Fridays and averaged $20 hr. He did that for 18 months part time and ended up raising a $11 Million seed round during that time.

According to him, he worked "20 hrs a week at TGI Fridays and 70 hours a week on my site".

He had the chance to work for another startup and he said he tried it as a contractor and it was the biggest mistake he ever made.

According to him - "getting away from working online is what made my ideas flourish. You have to take a break and get out in the world and somehow those little moments good ideas just start to happen".

That's one guys opinion - but he's a great guy that a great friend.

jstewartmobile
I'll second this. If you do brain work to pay the bills, there probably won't be enough left for your own project.

I believe there was some studio guy who once made the same observation about musicians: the ones who had low-mental-effort day-jobs eventually made it. The rest backslid into white-collar wage-slavery.

jonathanmv
Those are interesting cases. Definitively the will power works as a muscle and has limited resources. Thanks for your comment
jonathanmv
This is an amazing story. The comments from your friend seem to me very reasonable. Right now I'm volunteering at a surf shop in Portugal that covers a place to sleep and breakfast. Do i have had time to work on my ideas but I'm not generating any income. I'll keep in mind your friend's experience when tried to work as a contractor for a startup.

Thanks for sharing this story