I do some freelance but that’s a very broad term, is there anything else I can do besides find customers and providing programming services? Maybe some more niche thing I’m not aware of?
I don’t want to go back to the corporation area. Also, I don’t want a lot of money, I live a very minimalist life with very basics, no travels, no girlfriend, no friends, always in my home.
I’d be happy earning $300-400 a month, does anyone has any suggestion?
I’d like to work with REAL programming, not devops, not cloud, not managing containers, I want to write code as a living.
What do you mean by “corporate?”
You could look at higher education, non-profits, research, etc.
I don’t want a lot of money
Do you want to work full time? I’d never hire a programmer who wants to work less than 20 hrs/wk and I’d even be very unlikely to hire anyone for less than full time. It’s a pain to coordinate with somebody on a team who isn’t there most of the time.
Maybe small non profits would be interested, but
I’d like to work with REAL programming, not devops, not cloud, not managing containers, I want to write code as a living.
Small businesses will need someone who is flexible and can “do everything”. Typically only large organizations allow people to specialize.
Maybe “bug hunting” or contributing to larger oss projects that have budgets to pay for contributions?
30 hrs/wk is good to me
There are many public sector organizations that need programming done. There are also organizations that back FOSS work. However, if it can’t involve devops, cloud, or containers, I don’t know how much will be left for you to do. There are tasks that don’t involve those, but they’re few and far between. And anybody who said those aren’t part of “REAL programming” wouldn’t get a second listen from me in a hiring scenario.
I’d be happy earning $300-400 a month, does anyone has any suggestion?
Wtf … which country is that? That’s not even a quarter of my rent.
What about working for small IT companies? That way you don’t have to deal with finding and dealing with customers yourself but you can also avoid the big corporate structures and practices.
Minimalist anti-consumption life, I don’t need too much. Where I live $400 is a minimum wage, I can live with that.
I could elaborate if you want to, I’m a year or more in this anti-consumption lifestyle, it was tough, learning to ditch “things” I loved to spend money on, now I just spend with the very basics, still a work in progress, but I had a good progress already.
You will find it challenging to freelance while living this lifestyle. Looking wealthy implies you are successful; being successful implies you’ve been hired by other companies; being hired by other companies means you’re safe. A bit like why the bank has marble floors.
That’s probably the worst bullshit I read today (and I use Reddit).
You’ve never heard the term “dress for the job you want to have”?
That’s what this is. People who interview you are significantly more likely to hire you if you don’t dress poorly.
Your attitude also really sucks. We can tell you use Reddit.
If everywhere you go it smells like shit, check your shoes.
I have to say, as someone who is currently living in a van
I live a very minimalist life with very basics, no travels, no girlfriend, no friends, always in my home.
This sounds terrible. Enjoying the basics is very nice. No travel, sure. But no friends or girlfriends? Never leaving the house? That has nothing to do with living a minimalist anti-consumption lifestyle. Surely there are some nice people you can find with similar interests and lifestyle goals around, who spend time together riding bikes, dumpster diving, and volunteering at a CSA or something. I suppose everyone is different, but based on everything I’ve experienced and all the science I’ve read, social interaction is a basic human need.
So you’re saying your way to live is the correct way?
I’m good at my home, I read my books, play some video game, watch some series.
I don’t need social interaction. I’m anti-social since I was born probably.
Greatest philosophers lived a quiet life: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
And I don’t miss it at all. Quite the opposite, it feels good to not need such things to feel satisfied in life.
Like I said, everyone is different, and if this makes you happy I won’t try to dissuade you.
I’d be more concerned about stability than the individually variable things.
If OP doesn’t need the same social things as you or me, that’s for him to determine.
Things like health, injuries, etc (unpredictable stuff) causing destabilization are what we all try to mitigate.
Recluses have existed since humans walked upright.
Most nonprofits will have some software needs, and smaller ones in particular can’t usually pay the going rate for a developer. It’ll be a mix of tech work in my experience -IT, support, web design and system integration mostly. Your local city government will probably be similar.
This is my dream, whenever I have the next opportunity. It may not pay that much, but I’d rather contribute more to my local community the best way I can than make “dev salary”
You might want to peruse the job board at 80000.org , which tracks jobs that do social good. It can be a mixed bag though. Right now I see postings for both a Director of Clinical Development at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and also a Chief AGI Economist at Google, so YMMV.
Other options include indie gamedev, various forms of consulting (can be high pay but likely high pressure and at least corporate adjacent), find a big enough niche or a bunch of small ones (hard part) and fill it with software for patreon or similar, phone apps, socially conscious coding (e.g. network alternatives ala meshtastic, here’s an idea I had, meat on those bones), it’ll take a while, but if you fill a need people will support. Good luck.
