Getting Started With Part-Time Development Work?

fortapocalypse writes "I'm getting paid a good salary as a Java developer and the hours are great. It is also very stable, which means something in today's economy, especially with a family to feed. However, I'm very unmotivated both because of the work that I do, which is boring, and because the organization I work for is highly political, disorganized, and lacks accountability. I've done what I could to try to change things at work and have pretty much given up on that. I want to go out on my own, either starting my own company or just working as a contractor doing Java development, but I'm not sure of the best way to get started, and my family needs the stability of my current job. I'd really like to start out part-time at 5-15 hours a week to use it as supplemental income (which my family could really use at the moment), but I really don't know where to start. I doubt many contracting agencies would be interested in a part-time worker. What would you suggest for someone in my position?"

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Re:Time for my daily trollbiting...

[SanityInAnarchy]

So, I've just reread my post, and I can't see where I even mentioned rape. But let's go with that, because I'm in such a trollbiting mood:

While this might be considered a legitimate reason to have an abortion, consider the statistics

So you admit that it might be a legitimate reason, except for some statistics. So let's look at them:

There are about 200 pregnancies due to rape [physiciansforlife.org] per year

In other words, you're going to tell those 200 women that they have to carry the baby to term,

So my question is: why is it okay to make abortion legal and freely available in all cases, just to make it available for the 0.00003% that may have legitimate reasons?

I don't know. Let's look at our other fundamental rights and see which ones we don't value, because they only apply to a minority.

Hell, there's only a tiny percentage of people in the US who aren't Christian, or at least Deist -- let's make it a legal requirement to believe in God!

Fuck no, the question is not one of statistics. We are about fundamental rights, in case you've forgotten. How many people in China are actually harmed by the inability to speak freely? Who gives a fuck? It's a fundamental, inalienable right.

So yeah, unless you're ready to tell those 200 women to go fuck themselves -- and very likely the other thousand or so women who don't want to admit they were raped -- I think we should let it stand.

By the way: All of that is following your assumption that only women who have been raped have a legitimate reason for getting an abortion. That seems moronic. Either abortion is baby-killing or it's not. If you're right, and it is baby-killing, then those 200 women should sit and suffer -- but I think you're an insensitive prick if you believe that. If it's not baby-killing, but fetus-aborting, then yes, every woman should have a right to it, whether she's been raped or not.