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Part-time programming work is reputedly rare, though no one could tell me why. Nonetheless, I fell into a part-time programming job once (they contacted me), a
by 10ren 18y ago
Part-time programming work is reputedly rare, though no one could tell me why.
Nonetheless, I fell into a part-time programming job once (they contacted me), and I found it tended to take over my thoughts - as programming tends to.
Does it have to be a programming part-time job? It might work better for you to have a non-intellectual "day job", perhaps a physical one, or a social one, or just a really brain-dead one. e.g. A housemate had the job of changing tapes of a mainframe overnight (or something like that).
University job boards are a great way to find part-time work (though usually only for students).
- kiwidrew 18y agoI'd like to second this thought -- on each of the occasions that my thoughts turned to "hey, I can just do a little bit of paid development work part-time while I work on my own stuff!", that "part-time" gig somehow managed to take over my entire day/week. And so all that extra time I had imagined I would be spending productively working on my own stuff mysteriously evaporated, because my paid work was taking up all of my headspace. "Brain-dead" work, on the other hand, tends to make me _more_ productive when I sit down to design or develop something. So there's probably a continuum effect here. My recommendation to the original poster is to find the _easiest_ and most menial job that still meets the requirements of your visa, whatever that may be.