[felipefar]

Just wanted to share that I've found part-time roles hard to get by. It seems companies mostly look for full-time employees.

This is unfortunate because it makes harder to keep working on personal projects on the side, because you either have to make them lucrative to let you work on them full-time, or you have to squeeze them during night-time, when you are tired from daily work.

[probably_wrong]

Whenever a recruiter contacts me and I say I'm looking for a part-time job, they ghost me. They don't even say "that's not what we're after", just... nothing.

Not even dating apps have been this rude to me.

[danenania]

I hate to say it because it many companies will be extremely frustrated if you do this, but if you just want to maximize self-interest the move is definitely to go through the whole interview process without mentioning that you want part time, then bring it up at the offer stage. Some will be annoyed, but you’ll avoid getting filtered out before meeting an actual decision maker who can make an exception for you if they like you.

[JeremyBarbosa]

My solution for this was switching careers. I found that anyone hiring engineers wanted someone doing 40 hours a week at least, which makes sense since you have to have such a large mental model to build a system. Content and copy writing on the other hand is much more flexible because the unit of work is so much smaller. Any content marketing manager would love a real engineer to write for their blog once a week and help sell their product. Then just stack up different clients until you reach whatever weekly load you are comfortable with.

[em-bee]

i pretty much gave up looking for part time roles. i apply for full time roles and hope i can talk them into reducing my hours later. in germany, by law after i think 6 months you have a legal right to reduce your hours to part-time unless it is a small company and they can show that reducing your hours would cause serious difficulties for the company.

[lobsterthief]

I’ve found it’s best to squeeze them in the morning, before you’re tired from daily work ;) But I understand not everybody can function well that early

[em-bee]

when i was in highschool, i used to get up at 5am to do my homework. it was quiet (and i was sharing my room with my brothers) and i was awake. best time of day to get work done.

i think when applying that to your side project, it has the added benefit that you start into the day doing something worthwhile which can be encouraging (no matter how bad it gets at work, i already did something useful today)

[senorrib]

I began doing that much later in my life, but totally worth it.