Ask HN: How to work minimally, legitimately (inspired by developers lying post)
So I want to spend my time researching and translating esoteric Tibetan texts. There’s zero money in that.
What I need is basically what the person in the above thread does - 10 hours a week would be amazing, but I don’t want to feel like I’m scamming my employer to get it. Keeping up some pretence of work doesn’t seem like a good idea ethically or for my own mental health.
I don’t need a big salary, I can quite easily live on 30-40k.
I’m at the beginning of my career as a developer. Reading the linked thread I kind of despair at the fact that hardly anyone seems willing to give part time contracts when it seems a lot of developers don’t work full time anyway. Are there ways to do this legitimately as a developer, or do you basically have to be in a big company where you can coast?