Reply to: Finding extra part time remote work

[shookshiver]

Comes free with a black belt in Ecky Thump

And also comes with the Hillary evasive email and corruption technique too
:-)

[quackhandle]

Quick search came up with...

Freelancer.com
Freelance.com
Upwork.com

No, thank you.

qh

[LondonManc]

Is that a new Martial Art?

Comes free with a black belt in Ecky Thump

[MrMarkyMark]

Being doing it for the last 7-8 years - im fully immersed in Agile Scrum Kanban, business transformation, CI,CD, security and even some big data

Thanks for the tips - i thought this was something folks did - didnt know its a rare thing

Is that a new Martial Art?

[shookshiver]

There's more to DevOps than just going to conferences. Do you know what it is and have you planned your experience, training and learning around it?

I'm not sure that you're going to find much part-time remote work there (I wouldn't be interested in such contractors).

You need to list out the benefits to potential clients of working the way you want (and be prepared to sell it), because they'll be as skeptical as I am.

Being doing it for the last 7-8 years - im fully immersed in Agile Scrum Kanban, business transformation, CI,CD, security and even some big data

Thanks for the tips - i thought this was something folks did - didnt know its a rare thing

[sal]

Need to upskill Sal ...

Nah i'm fine, for the type of work I was talking about the clients are too cheap to be able to afford me and usually go for the lowest price. You can probably make more money driving an Uber in your spare time.

The ones that know what they want and can afford it are usually too demanding to be able to squeeze them alongside full time gig.

In any case I'm not looking for more work, as I work to live, not live to work.

[northernladuk]

I'm not sure that you're going to find much part-time remote work there (I wouldn't be interested in such contractors).

Absolutely this.

[cojak]

Finding extra part time remote work

I assume your talking from experience



Im going to a Devops meeting here in London so ill get my business cards ready and start handing it out. I need the extra cash cause ill be buying a property soon

There's more to DevOps than just going to conferences. Do you know what it is and have you planned your experience, training and learning around it?

I'm not sure that you're going to find much part-time remote work there (I wouldn't be interested in such contractors).

You need to list out the benefits to potential clients of working the way you want (and be prepared to sell it), because they'll be as skeptical as I am.

[stek]

I found when I was trying this it was a third of my time looking, a third selling, a third actual paid work so you'd need to increase ur rate by three until you can get employees onboard.

[northernladuk]

I assume your talking from experience



Im going to a Devops meeting here in London so ill get my business cards ready and start handing it out. I need the extra cash cause ill be buying a property soon

So whats business offering? What is the scope of the services you can offer a potential client?

[shookshiver]

He can do it easily by freeing up time by not posting so much on CUK

I assume your talking from experience



Im going to a Devops meeting here in London so ill get my business cards ready and start handing it out. I need the extra cash cause ill be buying a property soon

[SlipTheJab]

Well if he is looking for that type of work hes gonna have to offer an SLA up and meet it which is going to be nigh on impossible if hes in a full time role.

He can do it easily by freeing up time by not posting so much on CUK

[northernladuk]

either that or you find small companies who want to pay for 'ad-hoc' support but expect you to drop everything at a moments notice to help them out.

Well if he is looking for that type of work hes gonna have to offer an SLA up and meet it which is going to be nigh on impossible if hes in a full time role.

[Lance]

You won't be able to find much bits of work that you can do alongside full time gig. The problem is that on that market for remote small pieces of work you are competing against a massive number of Indians etc. happy to "do" the work for chump change.

either that or you find small companies who want to pay for 'ad-hoc' support but expect you to drop everything at a moments notice to help them out.

[sal]

You won't be able to find much bits of work that you can do alongside full time gig. The problem is that on that market for remote small pieces of work you are competing against a massive number of Indians etc. happy to "do" the work for chump change.