Survey Results

S Douglas wrote:
What is this leisure time you speak of?

To some, this is the moment when you hope time will stop. I can be also the moment when you think time is so slow.

Answer is so simple, why you need to ask such a question. On other parts of the world, developers are not lucky to earn too much for a simple job as in USA. WTF | :WTF:

ocdogan wrote:
Answer is so simple, why you need to ask

I ask because there might be several reasons. If you had read the replies, you would have seen that people actually have different reasons for doing side work.

ocdogan wrote:
as in USA

I don't know how much you earn in the USA, because I've never worked there.
From a few newspaper article I know that in the USA many people need two jobs to make a living. I aked here to get first hand reports rather than journalist's talk, because where I live one job usually is enough.

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Corinna John wrote:
From a few newspaper article I know that in the USA many people need two jobs to make a living

From my experience, this is true. Though in general I think Americans are also poor at saving money. It is very tempting to buy things on credit. Many fall into that trap and then have to do the two/three job thing to dig themselves out.

I do lots of side work, but not because I need to; I just like doing it. The extra cash is just a nice bonus.

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Corinna John wrote:
From a few newspaper article I know that in the USA many people need two jobs to make a living.

I am not sure about places where the rent/housing costs are rediculous but where I live (Pittsburgh PA) a software developer can live well on a single job I guess unless you are the only bread winner and you have 6 or more kids...

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I did look at doing tutoring a couple of years back for high school Computing Standard Grade and Higher Grade courses. However, I bought the books and thought the course was mostly a pile of crap that didn't match the real world significantly and ditched the idea.

My parents gave me my old school report cards recently and I'd forgotten that I had a clash of opinions with my high school computing teacher. She really ripped into me in those reports (I still got an A for the course and I haven't changed my opinion much - and it certainly doesn't match what was in those books)

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Option	Votes	%
Internal office bulletins	7	1.05
Friends, colleagues or business / work contacts	246	36.77
Newsgroups / forums	22	3.29
Elance	6	0.90
Rent-a-coder	25	3.74
Newspapers / magazines	6	0.90
They find me (eg through CodeProject articles)	64	9.57
I don't do any side work	358	53.51
Responses	669
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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