I have to agree. I have tried several times to find side work that pays immediately, fits my schedule, and provides me with something that is challenging (or at least fun); if it's not fun or challenging I find that I stop almost as soon as I start.
It's darn near impossible and for most of the reasons listed in the original post. You can always find a job that satisifies one of the needs; but, rarely two, and hardly ever all of them.
The closest thing I have found is working on my own OpenSource projects (no shameless plugs here). Working on my own projects is fun, challenging, and fits my schedule. It just won't pay immediately. If I keep at, though, other avenues will open; just look at Kent Beck.
The only way to get ahead in this business is to work really hard by devoting a lot of blood, sweat, and tears; which really sounds like a day job.
If you want easy money in IT, you'll need to generate demand in a market that you create yourself (which is not easy).
It's not often that someone from a private sector can enter into this realm and have a chance of succeeding. It's also a dream of his which I can empathize with since it is also a dream of mine to go into space.
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I have to agree. I have tried several times to find side work that pays immediately, fits my schedule, and provides me with something that is challenging (or at least fun); if it's not fun or challenging I find that I stop almost as soon as I start.
It's darn near impossible and for most of the reasons listed in the original post. You can always find a job that satisifies one of the needs; but, rarely two, and hardly ever all of them.
The closest thing I have found is working on my own OpenSource projects (no shameless plugs here). Working on my own projects is fun, challenging, and fits my schedule. It just won't pay immediately. If I keep at, though, other avenues will open; just look at Kent Beck.
The only way to get ahead in this business is to work really hard by devoting a lot of blood, sweat, and tears; which really sounds like a day job.
If you want easy money in IT, you'll need to generate demand in a market that you create yourself (which is not easy).
That's all I really have to say ... way to go.
It's not often that someone from a private sector can enter into this realm and have a chance of succeeding. It's also a dream of his which I can empathize with since it is also a dream of mine to go into space.
WAY TO GO!!!