Ah, so then it's $150k a year for less than 25 hours a week. Good work if you can get it.

You can earn a similar deal by getting a part time tech job and buying lottery tickets with some of that.

A part time tech job that paid 150k per year seems dreamy. Is this a real thing? If so, where do I look? What if I'm not risk averse, do contracting gigs that net 150k a year exist? Are they attainable to jr devs?

Only if you live in the Valley, where the house prices are so high you’ll swallow your tongue or just laugh yourself to death.

There are people who contract and then just take a few months off between contracts. If you can work the health insurance it’s okay.

I think there’s a world where contracting houses have certain specialized individuals who work 15 hours a week on three projects, but if those places exist I haven’t worked for any of them. In that hypothetical environment you should be able to get 30 or 20 hours a week if you wanted. Or 55 for that matter.

What I meant is: getting success on youtube requires a lot of luck. Instead earn $60k part time and spend half of your take home on lottery tickets to get the same success/probability distribution as youtubing!