Me so hungry. Me program for you long time!

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:30:43 -0800

I'm a broke but quite talented programmer. How do I earn a steady income working from a remote location for a company, and programming? I'm tired of freelance gigs, I need something stable (like a 6 month contract with monthly payments, deadlines and remote checking in of code?) I'm working on my startup, and I'm starting to realise that perhaps this startup idea is equivalent to the writer who has been writing his novel for the past 4 years and still works at McDonalds. I'm tired of being poor and hoping on the big payout when my project is done. I need some stable money. How do I go about doing this, but still have enough time left over for my masters degree as well as to continue working on my dreams?

I've done the Rent A Coder thing, and I easily land $2000+ jobs because I'm quite skilled at some specific areas. However, it's time consuming finding the right projects and often the work involved is massive, and the deadlines are extremely tight. This takes away from my study time as well as the time I need to work on my own project. So I don't want to do the freelancing thing anymore.

I'm not a bad programmer because:

1. I do pretty complicated stuff in C++ and the people I've freelanced for are always satisfied.
2. I've been improving myself, and I now know quite a bit of Django+Python+SQL, in addition to my 5 years of C++ and 8 years of VB6. So I do good web based as well as desktop stuff.

I could find a job in a real physical dev shop job easily, but that requires fixed hours, and I just don't have the time. My workday at the moment already runs at around 10 hours.

I love programming, and there is really nothing I'd rather do. But I have my dreams and my project, and I don't want to give this up for money, but reality is kicking in. I need some cash badly.

Where do I find such a steady income job with a perhaps 5 hour daily work load that will not demand impossible deadlines or exploit me?

I want to be a programmer's pinup girl.

thewhynotgirl — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:45:55 -0800

I have applications galore mapped out in my head, and want to hire a coder to make them. Without coding knowledge, I want to be the dream client by submitting a GUI graphic and basic directives (like "initial screen displays these 6 buttons" "option for icon/text" "keep all screens no busier than 60% whitespace" "what problem is this app designed to solve?"). Can you supply/point me to such a developer/client questionnaire and free GUI template graphic maker? Please don't suggest I learn how myself right now -- I need these apps because I'm so overwhelmed with stuff to do! Thanks in advance.

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Me so hungry. Me program for you long time!

I want to be a programmer's pinup girl.