Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by partingshots on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:03AM (#23258455)

Learn programming while doing something like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. delivery in the mean time. Then start applying for roles.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by koheripbal on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:08AM (#23258507)

Unless you really need the money, your best investment is putting 100% of your time into learning new skills.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by jklein11 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:17AM (#23258604)

That can't be true. If you spent all of your time developing new skills you wouldn't have any time to capitalize on them. You are likely better off conquering a niche.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by koheripbal on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:05PM (#23263392)

I mean temporarily during this lockdown - not indefinitely.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by rmoriz on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:14AM (#23258579)

This but keep in mind that "selling our skills" is also a skill of its own.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by rmoriz on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:15AM (#23258594)

This wont generate income now. It's super hard to invest your time on learning things when your budget is tied and your job perspective is "vague".

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by economicslol on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:06PM (#23260163)

"Learn to program"

People are still repeating this meme?

But seriously while Uber and other companies are laying off thousands it's probably one of the worst times to try to enter the market as a new SWE.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by cosmodisk on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:38PM (#23265733)

No, it's not.One won't enter the market today,as it'd take 6-12 month to get to the point where you know the basics. Such a person wouldn't be competing with those from Uber,as the level of seniority is completely different. 100% junior dev jobs may be hard to come across over the upcoming months, however there are tons of jobs out there that would absolutely benefit from having someone who can write even basic scripts.

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Re:Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home witho... by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:29AM (#23258766)

What do you think the market is right now for totally green engineers?

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