If there are fewer cars on the road because the people who can work at home are doing so, then the commute becomes smoother for anyone who can't work from home.
Is it a death sentence or do the higher ups just want you to think that? If many people start doing it, the people hiring will just have to accept it. When I was a kid, they said people shouldn't get tattoos because you'll never get a real job. Now everyone has tattoos, even people with real jobs.
> When I was a kid, they said people shouldn't get tattoos because you'll never get a real job
I'm from such upbringing and then after exiting the study and full time job marathon in mid 30s, I realized that everyone have tattoos including doctors and policemen. Nowadays the first thing kids want when reaching age 17 is tattoo. Some major cultural shift happened when I was stuck in libraries and offices. Now after few years and with gaps in CV I'm the unemployable.
I think most people consider the "social" impact rather than anything else. Other commentors basically boil it down to "if you can explain it as a useful endevour" it's fine.
I was working for a fintech startup and hating it. It was boring and the upcoming work was about 6 months of incorporating a credit card system into the code.
I quit that so I could open a music school with two of my friends and bandmates, with the idea that I could go back to part-time dev work to pay the bills while the school gets going.
And that's what happened. I got a part-time front-end job at an online game, which I had already been playing for about 3 years. They had a "come join the team" posting in the news ticker of the game. I'm making about the same hourly, but only working 20 hours a week, which is the perfect amount. The rest of the team is on a different continent so I basically just pump out my code as I see fit. No morning status calls, no scrums, etc. And I'm pretty sure I can work more hours once if needed, depending on what happens with the school.
I'm an edge case, but I recently found a part time dev job at a web game that I had been playing for about 2.5 years prior. In the news header of the game they had an headline that came up every few weeks that said "We are always looking for good devs to join the team". When I was finally ready to commit, I emailed them, had a couple email exchanges and two interviews. One interview over slack and one video interview with the two people I'm most directly working with. Now I'm working there, very happy to be part time, and I'll work there for as long as the game stays popular.
Very cool, congratulations on the position! I'm a fan of web based games, out of pure curiosity is there any chance you can shoot me a link to the game in a DM?
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I’m a full-stack developer with over 15 years of professional experience, ranging from small web shops to a six month contract at AWS. Two years ago I opened up a music school. I’m currently looking for part-time, contract based work that will be flexible with my music school commitments. Check out VanWalks for a recent example of my dev chops. My full portfolio is available at chriskingwebdev.com. Vancouver BC based.
Location: Vancouver BC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Full stack web, React and React Native most recently
Résumé/CV: chriskingwebdev.com
Email: chriskingwebdev@gmail.com
I’m a full-stack developer with over 15 years of professional experience, ranging from small web shops to a six month contract at AWS. Two years ago I opened up a music school. I’m currently looking for part-time, contract based work that will be flexible with my music school commitments. Check out VanWalks for a recent example of my dev chops. My full portfolio is available at chriskingwebdev.com. Vancouver BC based.
I am very interested in this. I have a walking tour app with English content narrated by me. I have a French text auto-translation in the app, but no audio content in other languages yet. This could be a game changer for me. I'll definitely try it out in the next few days and get back to you with feedback.
