[lumost]

It’s also worth considering whether providing a lower going rate and longer duration of work would be effective. For some projects it may be possible to effectively work half time.

I’ve met folks in unusual industries that need ongoing tech work/knowledge but have no desire to have this knowledge and effort in house. Medical device manufacturing was one such field. (work was government compliance, and server patching/network maintenance)

[poochkoishi728]

Would you have any suggestions for finding work in fields like this? As a developer (mobile with some web and backend), I would love to have ongoing part-time work to provide enough income and free time to pursue other projects.

[lumost]

These jobs are generally considered full time and may even have anti moonlighting clauses. They just don’t have much pressure associated to them as long as you are moderately competent and can reasonably deal with crushing beuracracy.

The way to find these is to really just look for a job which emphasizes enterprise, a tech you know, and the main focus being upgrade from version X to version Y. Bonus points if this is in a large firm with minimal competition in its sector.

These companies largely need someone to be there in case they might need some job done, but generally they need people to pretend to be busy. With remote work, they probably don’t need you to try particularly hard at that.

[fred123]

Where are you based?

[poochkoishi728]

Am based around the Los Angeles area.