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A comment on Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by rwaksmunski on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:45PM (#35448198)
Yes,

Moved to Eastern Europe to reduce cost of life, Freelance on Upwork, work about 6-8 hours a week.

Absolutely, should have done it years ago.

I rediscovered the joys of programming by learning Rust, I rediscovered they joys of hobbies (photography, car wrenching, modeling, 3d printing, bicycling, weight lifting). Wife gets at least 2 full days a week to do whatever she wants together. We often visit old European cities for a 5 day weekend. What else. Rehabbed my childhood home, rehabbed my Wife's log cabin in the mountains. Looking for a historical flat in the old town part of nearby large city. Life is not bad.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by robertcope on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:51PM (#35448248)
You do all that on 6-8 hours of work a week?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by rwaksmunski on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:03PM (#35448341)
$1k a week goes a long way here.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by xupybd on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:30AM (#35449320)
What is life like on Upwork?

Is there a lot of wasted time and low paying contracts?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by rwaksmunski on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:09AM (#35450911)
Not really, I set my rate at $150/h. Most of my work comes from clients I've had for years.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by systemshutdown on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:00PM (#35472828)
What type of software do you produce with Rust for your clients? If I may ask.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours? by rwaksmunski on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:40PM (#35517723)
So far, parsing common crawl database at line speed, rewriting a lot of AWS Lambda functions, embedded systems upgrade scripts, few ESP32 deep embedded devices, REST API backends, custom key-value stores, custom TLS terminator, etc, etc. A lot of my other work is ancient PHP, SysAdmin stuff and performance troubleshooting.
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