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@Turveyd: are you a contractor? I have thought about doing consulting on the side as I do have some coding skills (need to brush up on the latest technologies though).
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I own a company with a software component (not in trading per se) and am almost always looking for short-term or part-time developers, in my case PHP developers. These are generally implementation projects for new programs, in our case we see 3-5 new programs a year that we need to modify our core software platform for. Pretty much everyone who has done this for me has a technical but not CS degree and is self-taught on PHP, so you don't need to be an expert to get this kind of work. I know that almost every startup has a need for this kind of contract developer to help with the vast majority of their code which is time intensive but not rocket science. It's $50/hour work vice $150+ for someone with the right degree, but if you enjoy coding it might not be a bad supplemental gig.
The reason I go with this type of person vice using Upwork to hire at a fraction of the price is that I want someone local who I can meet with in person once or twice a week, and it's nice if I can find someone who I can go back to 9 months from now with another project and know I don't have to explain our business and codebase to you again. You'd want to develop some kind of competitive advantage like that if you wanted to go that route. I'd also recommend using meetup.com to meet up with others doing the same thing as you and get networked into that field. Good luck!
@Turveyd: are you a contractor? I have thought about doing consulting on the side as I do have some coding skills (need to brush up on the latest technologies though).
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I own a company with a software component (not in trading per se) and am almost always looking for short-term or part-time developers, in my case PHP developers. These are generally implementation projects for new programs, in our case we see 3-5 new programs a year that we need to modify our core software platform for. Pretty much everyone who has done this for me has a technical but not CS degree and is self-taught on PHP, so you don't need to be an expert to get this kind of work. I know that almost every startup has a need for this kind of contract developer to help with the vast majority of their code which is time intensive but not rocket science. It's $50/hour work vice $150+ for someone with the right degree, but if you enjoy coding it might not be a bad supplemental gig.
The reason I go with this type of person vice using Upwork to hire at a fraction of the price is that I want someone local who I can meet with in person once or twice a week, and it's nice if I can find someone who I can go back to 9 months from now with another project and know I don't have to explain our business and codebase to you again. You'd want to develop some kind of competitive advantage like that if you wanted to go that route. I'd also recommend using meetup.com to meet up with others doing the same thing as you and get networked into that field. Good luck!
