[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my S...
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Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my SRE and DevOps
experience?
Hi, I worked as a System Administrator and DevOps for last 10
years, but right now I experienced burnout and had to quit my job.
My savings are running out but I still don't feel I'll be able to
work full time without it detrimentally affecting my mental health.
I was thinking about doing some tutoring and did some of that for
my friends studying IT, and for my mental health it seems optimal,
as I like doing it and don't feel mental strain associated with
doing my job. I also wrote a Linux tutorial long ago and was
thinking about doing more of this as it turns out that I really
like to teach, but life and full time job interfered with those
plans. For those interested my tutorial is saved here:
https://archive.is/xDb8o Please tell me if you know how I can earn
some money doing Linux tutoring and maybe mentoring, maybe through
some companies or communities interested in that. I have a decade
of experience working with Linux, FreeBSD, computers networks, and
so on and so forth up to modern things and practices like Chaos
Engineering, AWS, CI/CD, Ansible and so on. Also I might be able
to do some part-time jobs with load of several hours per day, if
you know where I should seek for those I'd be grateful too.
Author : catanama
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-09-25 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
| hcrean wrote:
| Running your own private discount web hosting used to be fun and
| lucrative, less so with AWS nowadays and it takes time to build
| up a customer base. Still fun though.
|
| Short term project contracting is what got me out of my burnout.
| As did learning music on the side and just treating work like a
| day job rather than a calling.
|
| You can also probably speak to some recruitment consultants about
| pitching you to companies as part time. So much work going one is
| bound to be happy with that.
| samwestdev wrote:
| Sell courses
| radiojasper wrote:
| Go do something else, as this job clearly burned you out. Just
| because you spent a lot of time on it, it doesn't mean it's good.
| I'm a burned out web designer with 2 decades of experience and
| applied for a job as an operator for a taxi company. Why? Because
| I can communicate properly, I speak multiple languages, I have
| experience with taxi companies from a previous job I had ages ago
| and the best of all: It's not fucking web design. I am sure you
| can dig a little deeper to find a skill you can use in a
| completely different job! And if you don't like it after all,
| just leave. You need money, not a path to your retirement.
|
| In your case, I would apply for an IT job at a primary school.
| Literally everything is slow-paced on primary schools (trust me,
| I made websites for them for 15 years) and with your experience,
| you'll probably be on of the most valuable assets in their team
| while at the same time you can enjoy school hours, long
| vacations, no overtime and you work with a bunch of dorks who
| have no clue what they're doing. You won't get burned out from
| telling people to right-click a page and click on 'print'. It's
| easy.
| devKnight wrote:
| maybe something like codementor[0] Also for part time work, try
| posting in next months who wants to be hired and freelnacer
| posts. Say you want to do part time work, im sure you'll get alot
| of people needing part time help
|
| [0]https://www.codementor.io/
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