How to Earn More Money with More Freedom as a Developer

Developers who can hack part-time jobs never want to go back.

Abrar Masum
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readJan 12, 2022

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If full-time jobs are 40-hours/week, 20 hours/week should be called part-time jobs. 20 hours/week not only would make your life wonderful but also boost your career in a significant way.

Do you think the part-time developers are doing their part-time jobs because they are not getting full-time jobs? I don’t believe this is the case for most developers.

Though according to StackOverflow’s developer survey, more than 80% of professional developers are doing a full-time job. Why are so many developers doing full-time jobs?

Let’s see.

Why everyone wants full-time jobs?

Before we proceed further about why part-time jobs are better than full-time jobs, we need to discuss why everybody wants a full-time job.

  1. More money
  2. Financial security

But development is different kind of jobs than other jobs. Let’s see how you can eliminate these two factors by taking part-time jobs as a developer.

20 hours/week

First of all, most part-time jobs are better than full-time jobs in terms of hourly pay. It would be enough to pay your bills and stuff. So, when you have to work only 20 hours/week for your job, you would get a lot of time for yourself to do some other things.

But what about the money, right? Everybody wants more money. We will discuss in the next section how you can earn more money by using your additional time wisely.

What to do with the additional time

Let’s talk about how you should invest your additional time. Then you will understand why 20 hours/week is an excellent strategy. The same method helped one of my angel investors and my friend to boost their careers. Let’s dive into the facts.

Personal development

One of my investor of my startup earns 2000 pounds a day in UK only from development consultancy. He works only 7 days in a month. Once in a conversation we were talking about

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