Timeline for Why are part-time jobs in programming an anomaly? [closed]
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| May 24, 2016 at 8:35 | comment | added | ASA | Are they? Many of my fellow evening college students work part time. I myself work just 20 hours and it's awesome. At my current job and my last job I expected more pushback when asking for less hours but there was none. | |
| May 23, 2016 at 13:58 | comment | added | Michael Shaw | @jules, that kind of response would be good evidence of a company not properly considering the part time request. I think it would be hard to justify why adding an extra developer to the project would be so problematic. | |
| May 23, 2016 at 13:48 | comment | added | Jules | @MichaelShaw - Unfortunately, for a programmer in a team, they can just say "programmers need to keep up to date with changes made by other programmers; two job-sharing programmers would spend more time doing this and therefore less time working. Request denied." | |
| May 23, 2016 at 7:22 | history | edited | gnat | http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/7285/structured-tag-cleanup-initiative-phase-ii | |
| Sep 20, 2014 at 20:08 | history | closed | gnat Dan Pichelman CommunityBot Kilian Foth | Not suitable for this site | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | Unknown Coder | I tell them that I'm in grad school for my Masters degree, which is true. Most employers are sympathetic to mid-career professionals that want to further their education. I have done this successfully to the point of working 15-20 hours a week for full-time pay :-) | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 14:58 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 19, 2014 at 14:43 | answer | added | ZJR | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 9:52 | answer | added | Max Weber | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 25, 2011 at 20:39 | answer | added | yarony | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 25, 2011 at 20:00 | comment | added | rlperez | Why not just do short term full time contracts and take some time off between them to work on your own projects. | |
| Nov 25, 2011 at 18:56 | answer | added | jkh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 25, 2011 at 9:27 | history | notice added | ChrisF | Needs detailed answers | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 22:34 | comment | added | Michael Shaw | In the uk, if you have young children or are a carer you are entitled to apply for full time job and request they consider a job share. Companies are required to properly consider this request. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 21:26 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user41482 | ||
| Nov 24, 2011 at 20:56 | comment | added | Hanno Fietz | Read this with interest, a) because I had the same experience and b) because I'm hoping to hire people in my own company some time next year and I would like to make 3-day weeks possible without being an economic jerk. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 19:56 | answer | added | Phil Lello | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 18:47 | comment | added | gd1 | It's because 90% programmers are male and male people is not supposed to ask part time jobs. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 18:25 | answer | added | robrambusch | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 18:17 | vote | accept | Mikle | ||
| Nov 24, 2011 at 18:13 | comment | added | Louis Somers | @ThiefMaster, well not exactly forbidding personal projects, but any commercial activity, so no personal shareware or the likes. Concerning non-commercial open source activity, at least it shows passion and commitment to the field of profession, but if the boss will really be glad with it just depends... On my first job, I had the contract altered to allow my personal shareware site. I've now quit the shareware idea since it is impossible to combine a full-time job, a family and maintaining the shareware. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 18:05 | answer | added | halfer | timeline score: 37 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 17:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/139755751932571648 | ||
| Nov 24, 2011 at 17:19 | comment | added | Mikle | @OrbWeaver the funny thing is, a few people I talked with and stressed I'm looking for part time, have totally ignored it and offered offers to be one of the first employees, meaning of course a shit ton of work for some future reward). | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 17:10 | comment | added | tp1 | I've seen people who are still studying working half-time, but once the degree is done, noone works part-time. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 16:29 | comment | added | Dave Newton | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen Because there's other stuff to do besides work on someone else's stuff. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 16:17 | comment | added | ThiefMaster | How can your emplayer forbid personal projects? Working on them during work time is a no-go anyway unless your company explictely allows it... but at home you can do pretty much whatever you want. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 16:09 | answer | added | moooeeeep | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 15:56 | comment | added | Louis Somers | I guess saying you want to work on your own projects may be the worst thing you could ever say. A manager wants full dedication. You might be physically at his location, staring at a screen of his code, but thinking how to solve a problem on your own project. Are you spending your time on his or on your project? Most contracts I have had expressly forbid personal projects and some even go so far as claiming the right on any patents or inventions you may have during the period you work for them. Passion, Dedication, Commitment and Patronage are the gems that contractors are looking for. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 14:42 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | 3 days a week might be a bit too low, but I know programmers who have successfully negotiated 4-day weeks, at 80% the pay they would have gotten for a 5-day week. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 13:50 | comment | added | user1249 | Why don't you want to work full time? Got a job elsewhere? | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | user31664 | From what I hear, a large number of employers would give up a competent, even great, developer simply because he wants to work 5 days a week and not 7. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 13:24 | answer | added | Stephen | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 12:57 | comment | added | SF. | Yes, it's an anomaly. OTOH, a part-time admin is a very welcome, especially in small companies that neither need nor can afford a full-time admin. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 12:53 | answer | added | MarkJ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 12:52 | answer | added | l0b0 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 12:06 | answer | added | Wudang | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 10:26 | history | edited | DeadMG | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 10:26 | answer | added | nikie | timeline score: 96 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 10:20 | answer | added | S.Robins | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 10:19 | answer | added | Paolo Falabella | timeline score: 36 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 10:13 | answer | added | user8709 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 10:12 | answer | added | user2567 | timeline score: 40 | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 9:55 | comment | added | Mikle | Related, but the answers are really specific to students, which I'm not - programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/18984/… | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 9:54 | history | asked | Mikle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |