| > Offering a part-time role is a sign that they don’t actually have enough money to be in the software industry, rather than an indication that they have less than 40 hours a week of work to outsource. Kind of. I work full time for a big company, but also have a software-heavy side business which used to make thousands a month in revenue. I have enough money to be in the software industry with my side business - when I worked on it alone, my expenses were very, very low, unless you count the spare time I have spent on it. My full-time job keeps me busy and working on my side business eats up time. For example, an API upgrade we were kind of forced into swallowed up a massive amount of my spare time. That doesn't even cover other work I wanted to do in my side business, never mind everything else in life. As luck would have it, I know an experienced programmer who is not working a full time job right now, and I have paid him about $7000 so far this year to do work on my side business. He gets some cash in his pocket and I get some of my spare time back. In terms of finding jobs like this - I have known this person for over a decade, and he just started doing some work this year. On another tangent - someone I used to work with on my team left for another company, and started his own side business of a consultancy. He started getting so much business he reached out and a lot of programmers including myself started moonlighting, doing those projects after work. He did so well he left his full-time job to work on his business full-time. Then he started releasing his own projects as well. Me and others I know did work (actually, I recommended the guy who is currently doing work for me to do work for him, and he did some features for a project). So with regards to my business and this other business - you work with people, some of the more energetic types start their own side businesses, and some of those side businesses grow. I think the parent poster is right, people hiring part-time might tend to be smaller, underfunded businesses. |