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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 29, 2024

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I need a side job.

I am an Eastern European webdev, earning Eastern European webdev wages: good compared to the country median, so-so compared to the devs in the west, especially in the US. For reasons, I do not particularly want to change jobs, but at the moment things are going a little tight so I know that I can't just ask for overtime there if I need some extra money. Which I do because I want to expedite building a house.

So I need something that's either explicitly a small-scope side hustle or a series of odd jobs. What would be the best way to arrange that? Create a profile on upwork or something and trawl for limited-scope offers fitting mu skillset? Pimp my linkedin? Something else entirely?

Speaking of skillset, I'm fullstack-ish, on the backend side primarily Django, on the front I mostly do React and Angular these days, I used to do Vue too but haven't touched it in ~3 years so I'd need some time to get less rusty. Can setup things with Docker. Not ops - I don't know AWS etc.

(Yep, I'm the TS code monkey 120 IQ midwit walking among you ML intellectual titans ;) )

Inb4 "move to the States". It's not completely off the table if things go south enough either in Ukraine or with regulations throttling AI in EU. But it's a rather distant option.

I was on Toptal for a bit as a dev/technical writer. Generally commanded $100/hour (but am American) and have no idea what I was billed at.

You can find part time gigs on there, though for coding they typically want something close to 40. The interview process is (was?) annoyingly strenuous compared to just making an upwork profile.

Do you have RoR experience? I might have something for you.

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