Comment by mothballed

Comment by mothballed 6 days ago

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It's more likely to work if you move to Micronesia or Mexico or something like that, easy places for citizens to move to with low cost of living so you can bid on par with the other gig workers in Pakistan/India/Romania etc.

I think trying to do gig work from the states unless it is Defense contracting you're quickly going to find someone buying that might not care what geography they're drawing from which puts USA based workers at a massive disadvantage.

reactordev 6 days ago

Or, you take a couple contracts and make more than you did full time. This doesn’t add up. If I’m part time 25 hours a week, I can squeeze another 25 hours a week in there. 2x my rate.

You can definitely do it.

  • johnnyanmac 6 days ago

    Ahh yes, the total of... 1 mobile role. I definitely have a chance here.

    If you fell qualified for the 2 ceo's roles, or the staff Role, you're probably not in a situation where you need 2 jobs.

    • reactordev 6 days ago

      Same could be said why you’re looking at part time when you need a career.

      • johnnyanmac 5 days ago

        Because careers aren't hiring sadly. Can only take so many ghosts and dropped interviews before you decide "I just need something to stay afloat"

apwell23 6 days ago

then you are competing with the whole world for those jobs

  • giantg2 6 days ago

    With the outsourcing I'm seeing, we already are. I feel this is and even bigger factor than AI in the terrible tech market right now, only really behind zirp.

    • sokoloff 6 days ago

      Global software dev, off-shoring, and out-sourcing have been going strong for decades. The tech market was extraordinarily strong for most of that time.

      • giantg2 6 days ago

        Like I said, second to ZIRP. The offshoring options now are greater than they have been in the past.

        • charlie0 6 days ago

          The other part that everyone misses is that the rest of the world now has better infra infra and time to catch up. The amount of people online who can program and speak English has vastly increased.