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As a freelancer who does this 2 out of 3 jobs, I can tell you is definitely fun if you like challenge as in debug for 3 hours to only realize the old coder in 8
by unnouinceput 7y ago
As a freelancer who does this 2 out of 3 jobs, I can tell you is definitely fun if you like challenge as in debug for 3 hours to only realize the old coder in 80's never initialized a structure and a newer tool was used to create the modern platform. And when you come on-board for maintenance/upgrade you are not told this from nobody. So misery or challenge, depends on your point of view, but the other side of the coin is..well, the coin itself, it's huge :). You get paid handsomely.
- metreo 7y agoReportedly, there are definitely more interesting challenges. We are seeing this in academia quite frequently where the older professors have some hard worked program in BASIC from whenever and they try really hard to get someone to maintain it's existence since otherwise their efforts really do disappear. For the person taking this on it's tedious, thankless and of dubious tangible merit to the participant who should be focused on their own contemporary work. Have the reports of high pay been confirmed, AFAIK the push now is for volunteers.