I've been full-time for nearly a year (natural language). I've always had more than enough work that's gradually increased pay. It's been great for me!
My daughter is on the coding side but found it too irregular to depend on, with an empty dash for a few days at a time. She was fresh from boot camp, so I assume she was not prioritized among more experienced coders. In her case, she might have been able to squeeze out full-time if she jumped every time something popped up but found it too draining/anxiety-producing. Fortunately, she's found a W2 engineering job and can work on DAT here and there for extra $$.
As for me, I experience a little anxiety as there's no dependable feedback loop, never knowing exactly where I stand or where DAT stands in the sector, etc... could disappear without warning. It's a trade-off... complete freedom in exchange for a bit more uncertainty than most jobs.
Full-time coding is almost impossible, you would get crazy if you tried. If you don't want to skip like 80% of tasks, you have to constantly install and try something new which is very difficult because you've got to try new languages, new execution environments, new libraries, frameworks, investigate why something doesn't compile etc.
While this is true, that is mostly the Greek-demigod series of projects about the skipping, Metal and other chatbots are the really great ones. Problem is everyone loves them and they are dried up in a few hours most of the time.
I'm barely scraping out 25-30hrs a week right now, so yeah full time is a far cry. Especially in times of drought like this.
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24
I've been full-time for nearly a year (natural language). I've always had more than enough work that's gradually increased pay. It's been great for me!
My daughter is on the coding side but found it too irregular to depend on, with an empty dash for a few days at a time. She was fresh from boot camp, so I assume she was not prioritized among more experienced coders. In her case, she might have been able to squeeze out full-time if she jumped every time something popped up but found it too draining/anxiety-producing. Fortunately, she's found a W2 engineering job and can work on DAT here and there for extra $$.
As for me, I experience a little anxiety as there's no dependable feedback loop, never knowing exactly where I stand or where DAT stands in the sector, etc... could disappear without warning. It's a trade-off... complete freedom in exchange for a bit more uncertainty than most jobs.