Options for Moonlighting?

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1 points by nmquirk 3932 days ago

Hi Folks,

So I recently bought a house and I'm the only source of income. I crunched the numbers several times in a spreadsheet to make sure I should manage it. Even though I can manage it, I'd still like to make extra money preferably with programming since that's what I'm good at. If I could earn on average an extra $50-100 a week I'd be happy.

I've tutored in the past which isn't a great gig when you use services like Wyzant which take a 40% cut.

I've looked at contracting sites like guru, freelance, upwork but the jobs are vague and the bidding wars are intimidating.

I was thinking of keeping it local and offering shops and restaurants in my area my web design and programming services.

Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

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czbond 3932 days ago

Why not find a startup that could use an extra developer, or an agency ? Restaurants, etc make horrible clients - and often pay very little, considering how much time it takes to close the deal. I could find moonlighting devs work all day. What technologies are you comfortable in?

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nmquirk 3932 days ago

I'm very comfortable in SQL, Java, JavaScript (including jQuery), CSS, Clojure, Struts, Spring MVC and a little Android.

I do full-stack web app development for my day job and a lot of personal projects for fun.

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czbond 3932 days ago

Solid - please email me a resume or similar to chriszbond at gmail.com We can chat about moonlighting work - eg: a few hrs, a few hrs week, or a monht, etc.

I have immediate Java work (short but sweet, not a long project integrating into MySql and Kafka, and have JS FrontEnd/Backend Node.js that we could chat about.

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