Part-time gigs are the exception, Stan, but they're not unknown. I'm currently working part-time for three different clients. Or maybe only two, if you want to be pedantic and point out that one of them hasn't paid me for a while.
Most of it happened sort of by accident, so I can't point you to a set of actions that might net you part-time work. The first one is a mainframe development effort; the company was a partner of my previous employer, and when that employer closed their doors (the president wanted to retire) I kept doing a little RACF administration for the partner firm. That's the one that hasn't paid me in a while. I was approached by a regular TSS shop to help them remediate audit issues; I told the recruiter I wasn't available for full time but could give them maybe 20 hr/wk, and to my surprise they decided they could live with that. Some weeks I do 30 hours for them, sometimes only 10. They seem content with the results. Then my oldest son's best friend contacted me with an Excel question. He heads up a division in a legal firm, and they have a pretty fancy workbook that they run reports from often enough that they decided to hire me to automate a lot of their work. We don't have a good way of sharing the workbook, so they send it to me for a few weeks, I do some work on the coding, then send it back to them for user testing and to add more data, back and forth. I can go a few months without any activity at all, then take a week or two to write a new program and maybe tweak old ones. As I said, this all just happened without my having a plan for it. But I've gotten into the habit of telling recruiters "no, I'm not available for full-time work, but I can spare some hr/wk for part-time if that would satisfy your client." Mostly they're not interested, of course, but occasionally someone thinks that could work for them. I expect you'll find the same. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Don't let your mom brush your hair when she's mad at your dad. -from "Great Truths Kids Have Learned" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Stan Saraczewski Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 11:52 I'm semi-retired and would LOVE to find a part time gig... but that is where the problem lies - no one wants a part timer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
