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Successful Moonlighting For Geeks?
Lawksamussy writes "Having just bought a really old house that's on the verge of falling down, I'm now trying to find a way to pay to fix it up. I have a great job in software development that pays the bills, but I'm looking to earn some extra cash in my spare time. Whatever I end up doing has to be reasonably lucrative (or at least have the potential to be so), not require any specific time commitment, and be doable equally well from home or from a hotel room. I'm also keen that it should be sufficiently different to my day job to keep my interest up, so the most obvious things like bidding for programming projects on Rentacoder.com, or fixing up neighbors' PCs, aren't really on. Above all, it should appeal to my inner geek, otherwise my low boredom threshold will doom it to failure before I even start! So, I wonder if any of my fellow Slashdotters run little part-time ventures that they find more of an inspiration than a chore... and if they are willing to share what they do and perhaps even how much money they make doing it?"
Gross. Then you would have to buy a crappy mac - no way to build iPhone applications on a non os-x platform that I know of. Shudder.
Horns are really just a broken halo.
FWIW: I actually have a couple of projects that might offer the writer the flexibility and interest he craves. They are projects with beginnings and ends, not ongoing eternally (I don't think), so they're not 'forever' financial solutions for him. Although, who knows what could come of this. This also might be of interest to other Slashdotters, but I cannot discuss them here. Anyone wishing to contact me may do so at mister snitch [at] hot mail [dot] com, and I can offer broad strokes. BTW, the first thing I need is a patent attorney to protect the idea. It would be the sort of attorney comfortable with, say, patenting Amazon's various processes. Also: I HAVE rebuilt a house. Learned a lot, but it took forever and I don't know that I'd do it again.