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Comment by byoung2 | Hacker News Reader

I was in this situation, now I'm contracting with Surge, working 100% remotely, making my own hours. There are days where I work 4 hours, and days that I work 12. I enjoy not commuting, being able to work out in the middle of the day, take my daughter to the park, cook lunch, etc.

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In stackoverflow, there is a job advertisement: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/15018/hiring-senior-software-e...

The sentence is very important NO OFFSHORE CANDIDATES

This is so ridiculous:

    .NET / C#

    Node.JS

    Java

    PHP

    Ruby

    Python

    C++

    Objective C

    Android

    Windows Desktop (WCF, MVVM)

    BS in Computer Science

What exactly are they doing with all these languages? :)

It says One or more of the following skillsets is also required

You wouldn't necessarily be doing all of those things every day- I'm assuming they go out and find short-term work then assign it to you and you do it. So you could be doing just about anything.

As a side note; I'm only a few years into my career and have extensive experience with a vast majority of those technologies/frameworks, and picking up a new one is a cinch if you just put the time in.

Is Surge actively looking for subcontractors?

They're always looking for full stack devs. Send me your resume and I can forward it to the hiring manager. My email is my HN username @ Gmail.

That sounds ideal! Can I email you somehow?

Try my HN username @ Gmail

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