This is a great post. I just posted an Ask HN about part time tech jobs, especially jobs with extremely low hours requirements. From time to time I find that lo

This is a great post. I just posted an Ask HN about part time tech jobs, especially jobs with extremely low hours requirements. From time to time I find that local businesses sometimes need some in house tech stuff and will pay you on an ongoing basis for coming in a couple of times a week or remoting in to fix problems, etc. And this kind of mirrors what other people are saying - finding places that are using tech tangentially but don't really know what they're doing. The stress is way less. The issue I've run into with this is that a lot of these places are basically Stockholm Syndrome'd into using MS Office suite and various old school products that honestly have so many crazy bugs at the end of the day, and have changed so much over the years they're not really getting out of it what they did to begin with. It can be frustrating to have a place that is so locked into these tools and not open to growing, so in my experience even if it's low hours/minimal work, if you're maintaining something that's broken and hard to automate (MS Office bugging out) it gets really frustrating and less personally satisfying. One thing that I had some minimal success with is reaching out randomly to non profits and asking them if they need any help, say with Word Press or something like that. Non profits are really big on the lower salary stuff and will probably be super grateful that you're able to do anything VS the janky/expensive setup they have currently. The cool thing about this too is you can look up non profits that you support and so it's more personal meaning than fixing some cursed CSS bug on Random Big Tech SAAS startup. I figure you may be able to work part time at a couple of these and have it add up? Another thing is checking craiglist computer gigs. I've found interesting stuff there, most people don't think to look. My hours have to be really limited so these options work for me less, but maybe they help you!