Current Events > so, like, what's the easiest way to get one of those high-paying, remote work te

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tech jobs where you really only do like 10~20 hours' worth of any actual work a week?

(preferably without having to go back to school, but if that's the only way, then suggest away)

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oh, ok

v.v

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why would we spill the trade secret

Think about it son

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no one, really?

i see posts on here and elsewhere all of the time describing what i described in the op

am i posting during the wrong time of day or something?

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I get paid like shit compared to private
But I do literally maybe 1 hour of work a day 90% of the time during term time
the other 10% I'm working a full 3-4 hours a day for the first week of term after summer and christmas
duriing summer it's mostly 'wfh' or just show up to do shit with the stuff going on during the summer like outdoor activities with kids etc

Also school holidays usually apply to me tho I'll still turn up one day a week to do some project shit

all in all I get paid fulltime and do like 10% of the hours of work
also drunk teachers are horny as fuck on nights out

IT certs.

I did a coding boot camp (Revature) and then had a 2yr contract with them. Ended up getting 2 projects where I did fuck all (but pretty underpaid) but could work from home like half of the week. Covid made me permanently WFH. Once the contract was up I got a new job where I make 60% more and somehow do even less work.

Of the people I still talk with from the boot camp (my roommates) we have:

• 1 guy at the same place I used to be at. He works 60hrs/week minimum. He always had to be in office prior to Covid and they're very eager for him to stop being WFH.
• 1 guy who worked at a different place but also does fuck all. He recently got a new job where he kind of works - maybe 15hrs/week? With Covid he's now permanently WFH.
• 1 guy who had a contract with the TSA and got bought out. WFH because of Covid, but his "office" can be any number of cities where they have an office.

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also most places won't do it
not without you having experience

I got mine from cs degree and working at company 10+ years.
Wasn't remote till pandemic hit.
Always was cushy though. I could just go take a walk when i wanted.

I got a bachelors in accounting and basically do glorified bookkeeping now. I do two half days in the office and three days at home.
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Apodyopsist posted...

I did a coding boot camp (Revature) and then had a 2yr contract with them. Ended up getting 2 projects where I did fuck all (but pretty underpaid) but could work from home like half of the week. Covid made me permanently WFH. Once the contract was up I got a new job where I make 60% more and somehow do even less work.

Of the people I still talk with from the boot camp (my roommates) we have:
* 1 guy at the same place I used to be at. He works 60hrs/week minimum. He always had to be in office prior to Covid and they're very eager for him to stop being WFH.
* 1 guy who worked at a different place but also does fuck all. He recently got a new job where he kind of works - maybe 15hrs/week? With Covid he's now permanently WFH.
* 1 guy who had a contract with the TSA and got bought out. WFH because of Covid, but his "office" can be any number of cities where they have an office.

i've heard that coding boot camps are a scam, but i'm guessing it's one of those ymmv types of things

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anyway, do you mind sharing how the experience was? grueling? strenuous?

i've always been (or at least i think i am) a math-centric person (have never received lower than an A in any math class i've ever taken), but i've also never taken anything above some calculus (got a b.a. in something completely unrelated to math)

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Questionmarktarius posted...

IT certs.

what do these involve actually?

like, can you just self-learn off of free courses or youtube or something, take a certification test (how much are these btw?), and boom, that's it?

you're suddenly super hirable?

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takogumo posted...

i've heard that coding boot camps are a scam, but i'm guessing it's one of those ymmv types of things

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anyway, do you mind sharing how the experience was? grueling? strenuous?

i've always been (or at least i think i am) a math-centric person (have never received lower than an A in any math class i've ever taken), but i've also never taken anything above some calculus (got a b.a. in something completely unrelated to math)

I think it depends what one you go to, but I remember them talking to us when we finished the bootcamp and being like "hey yeah hopefully you guys know we're legit now so please leave a review".

It was pretty chill in all honesty. I had some coding experience from college and our "batch" was learning full-stack Java (html/css -> javascript -> typescript -> postgresql -> java -> spring boot -> AWS -> docker) which wasn't particularly difficult. We'd basically just go to "class" for 8 hours a day and then get a project every once in awhile.

Project 1) Basic html/css website, solo assignment. "Hi my name is Apodyopsist, here's my background, here's some links to songs I like"

Project 2) Make a website for a made up restaurant, partner assignment. Basically the same as project 1 as far as website complexity html/css wise, but you needed to have some javascript so people could order online and get their totals.

Project 3) Full stack website with a login page and 2 main pages (one for a lower level user, one for a higher level user), partner assignment. For ours we did an employee reimbursement system. You'd log in as an employee or manager: employees could submit a reimbursement request ("I want $200 for travel expenses, here's a lil note about what I spent money on") and managers could approve/deny them.

Project 4) Full stack website with multiple pages hosted on AWS, group assignment (your project 3 partner + one other team from project 3). We did a hotel with multiple user levels and guest registration where you could check out floor plans/pricing/ask for a viewing.

Projects usually had ample class time but sometimes you'd have to go home to finish it. We had homework assigned maybe 2-3x in the 4-5 months I was in the bootcamp. After we finished the boot camp we had an interview with someone from Revature to make sure we knew enough to get by in an interview, and then we interviewed with companies until we got picked up.

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takogumo posted...

what do these involve actually?

like, can you just self-learn off of free courses or youtube or something, take a certification test (how much are these btw?), and boom, that's it?

you're suddenly super hirable?

Pretty much what you said, though super hireable is somewhat hyperbolic when you have no experience. IT is one of those industries that has gotten its shit together and given people a way to prove that they're intelligent and knowledgeable enough to do the job without spending thousands of dollars on a college degree to do the same thing.

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