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loukanikos wrote

I can relate to the situation you are in. I would say the best thing you can do is switch to a higher paying job. Taking on "moonlighting" is stressful and I don't feel its healthy to invest that much in selling labor unless its transitional.

That said, learning more about computer code might be pan out for you. Eight years ago I quit a job I hated and moved to a very low-cost lifestyle (living in a less developed country as "expat", moving into my parents basement, living on a friends couch) while I trained myself to become a coder over about nine months. At that time I had no real responsibilities so it was a feasible approach. If I were to attempt this now that I have people who depend on me, I'd probably have to take a coding-adjacent job and work my way into a junior developer role.

Of course, the best outcome is to find something that you can enjoy and make money with. Perhaps that could be a "moonlighting" gig. I am interested in nature and gardening so I have recently taken to selling seeds and maybe will move to selling trees and plants. My hope is this could become a family business someday but I still don't really know how to make that happen.

Moonlighting has not worked out for me though. Even when I was able to land gigs doing coding freelance, I burned out really quick. I never completed my last one. The client had paid me 50% up front and although I did 90% of the work I was never able to wrap it up. For me the best solution to these woes has just been to find a job that pays more although this makes my family more reliant on my employer and that is not ideal.

One thing I have been looking into recently is cottage laws. These would theoretically let me sell home made goods like hot sauces, jams, pickles, etc which I already make a lot of and thoroughly enjoy the process anyways. This response may be entirely unhelpful but just sharing because I really relate. Hope you figure something out.

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loukanikos wrote

One maybe useful tidbit of context I can share is that an entry level tech support position (much like what I described as a possible avenue to junior developer) in the software world should currently start around $25 an hour and go up to $28 or maybe more in a better capitalized sector (there's not that much money in the industry I'm currently working in). For what I'm thinking you would likely be overqualified for such a position if you have marketable IT or even a smidge of coding skills. US-based values here, and I'm sure this varies by region.

I can imagine what you are going through. I hate capitalist labor market with every fiber of my being but somehow I havent been able to break away from it. Working shitty jobs is especially traumatizing. At least we can shitpost on the internet though.

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loukanikos wrote

Something I just remembered this morning is that the intersection of Jesus stuff and tech is actually a lot. This topic trigged me to remember now an interview I read some time ago with a developer who made an iPhone app that was just a way to read the bible in Spanish. It was a paid app and I believe he netted something like a million dollars out of it.

The iPhone app gold rush seems to be over these days but I'm sure you could make money slinging christian stuff on the web in other ways. Hell, it's not tech but even those candles with catholic saints are big money where I'm at. There may be more opportunity in that knowledge than is immediately apparent.

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