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Re:Ask HN: where's a good place to look for smart contract w... by ovi256 on Thursday June 12, 2008 @05:48PM (#216335)
And notice a flaw in all "what I am billing threads": they are positing a 40-hour week average, whole year round. Maybe in a hyperactive market it is possible to do that, but I think it would be fair to posit at most 2/3 uptime (out of about 250 work days per year). Why so low? You will spend considerable periods in downtime, looking for gigs.
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Re:Ask HN: where's a good place to look for smart contract w... by thomasswift on Thursday June 12, 2008 @06:14PM (#216348)
Only the good posts tend to talk about that. You will not 40 on billable stuff, unless you are crazy. There is a bunch of admin/business work to account for, that leaves you billing less than 40 hours per week, at least with still having some sort of life.
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Re:Ask HN: where's a good place to look for smart contract w... by andrewbadera on Saturday June 14, 2008 @12:50AM (#217376)
Really? Sign me up, sounds like a vacation.
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Re:Ask HN: where's a good place to look for smart contract w... by elad on Saturday June 14, 2008 @03:14AM (#217425)
It's not. You're looking for gigs, which means networking, interviewing etc. Marketing yourself essentially. Vacation is when you don't work.
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