[jpgvm]

I am working approximately 4 hours a day, earning around $1500 a week. Which is much more than you are looking for (about 4x more...) but is only about 2.5 days a week total time invested. So it's definitely possible to achieve $250-300/wk if that is all your expenses are.

However, I already worked full time for this company for 18 months remotely before I negotiated this arrangement. So YMMV but I think if you can afford to put things on hold for 3ish months and prove your worth you can probably get something similar which would provide you with time to do what you want.

I find alot of companies (startups especially) are happy to cater to these arrangements if you are sufficiently skilled.

[quaffapint]

I assume you live some place with a high cost of living (like San Fran)? Making $1500/week for 4 hours a day (heck, even 8 hours a day) is very high for non-San Fran like areas.

[kohanz]

4 hrs * 5 days per week = 20 hrs. $1500 / 20 hrs = $75 per hour. It's a decent rate, but it's hardly something you need to be in SF to find (where you more often hear of contractors charging $100+).

I currently have a similar arrangement, where I work about 20 hours a week as a contractor (although that is not a quota, but more of a choice) at nearly the same rate. I live in a mid-sized Canadian city (comparable to a smaller American city) with relatively low cost of living (to the big cities).

[jpgvm]

Precisely.

I could make more/hr but my current arrangement affords me more job security.

[serf]

What do you do? What are your skillsets? How long have you been a part of your field?

More importantly : How did you find your job, and how did you prove your worth?

[jpgvm]

I'm a systems engineer. I have a pretty broad skillset but it's mostly centered around automation and orchestration of large server environments.

I have been doing the same sort of thing for about 6-7 years now.

I found this job after choosing to move on from a startup in the same space. Proving my worth is a harder question. I just did what I do best, which is working hard and thinking deeply about what to do and when. People value me for my judgement over most other things so I have focussed a lot on how I can hone that.

[swat535]

this is the amount of money i make every 2 weeks as a full time rails developer in montreal.. sigh..

[bluedog]

can you get me in touch with some of companies. mail withmypc [at] gmail