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Ask HN: Finding an Hourly Job?

5 points by mholubowski ↗ HN
Howdy. Long story short, I’m a solid engineer. I’ve been working on my own projects the last 4 years. They make about $15,000/mo.

I want an hourly engineering job to subsidize income and to have something else to work on.

Could someone recommend how they’d go about finding that? I know there’s a great win-win matchup out there, but I’m not sure how to efficiently go about finding it.

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codingdave
Recruiters. Most of the calls I get are for hourly contracts doing boring dev work for the corporations in my area. I tend to ignore them all, but if you are just looking for some basic hourly work, respond to the recruiters who spam/cold call you.
mholubowski
Hey, I genuinely appreciate your reply. I hope you have a good week kind stranger.
leros
Do those pay competitively compared to a good salaried position at a big US company? On a per hourly basis of course. Most of what I see in hourly positions is far below what I'm used to.
codingdave
It varies. I've gotten calls about gigs that are laughably low, and I've gotten calls about gigs that are above market value for corporate work. Corporate work is never as high as FAANG or even most SaaS companies, though.
leros
Any tips on how to find the above market rate ones?
codingdave
I hear about above market rates when it is about niche skills. Think about what you know that is an uncommon skill and look for contracts using those skills. If you have a collection of unusual skills, find contracts that use them all. My best hourly gigs have been migrating apps from one obscure tech stack to another.
anonzzzies
Not what you asked, but you thought about selling your projects? That would at least be a few million: ETFs would then make you quite a bit more than you make now.
mholubowski
Hey! I don’t think it would be a few million. If someone offered me a few million then yes I would sell.

(solidaffiliate.com and AnalyticsWP.com are the two active projects)

codegeek
Yes. 15K revenue or even profits per month wont get you few million. Having said that, I buy small software/saas products/companies. If you are interested in potentially selling, hit me up. Criteria is min $10k-$50k/month average revenue.
codegeek
Sorry but you don't get few million for projects doing 15k/month.
zerr
You can retire early in most of the countries with that income.