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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.

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.

nickthemagicman 10y ago
This is interesting. Do you apply for part-time jobs specifically?
- spoiledtechie 10y ago
  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.
akamaka 10y ago
For every 100 jobs you apply for, how many responses do you get, and how many interviews?
- spoiledtechie 10y ago
  I get maybe ~5 responses.
neals 10y ago
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.
- mryan 10y ago
  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.
Periodic 10y ago
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.
zerr 10y ago
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.

nickthemagicman 10y ago

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

spoiledtechie 10y ago
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.

akamaka 10y ago

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

spoiledtechie 10y ago
I get maybe ~5 responses.

neals 10y ago

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.

mryan 10y ago
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.

Periodic 10y ago

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.

zerr 10y ago

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.