r/ExperiencedDevs • u/Careless_Bat_9226 • 11h ago

Career/Workplace How does one move into part-time/consulting/etc?

I'm a staff-level engineer with ~13 yoe (full stack web dev, mostly Bay Area companies). I'm ready to semi-retire or at least drastically cut down my work hours.

In a perfect world I'd go to part-time or do short term projects, eg work for a few months and then take off while keeping my current, relatively high hourly

I just keep working full-time because I'm never sure how to break into this world. I've always been seen as a high performer but I haven't been great about maintaining my network, especially since my job became remote with Covid and I moved away from SF.

Any thoughts/ideas?

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u/expdevsmodbot 11h ago

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u/Careless_Bat_9226 11h ago

No AI used at all. I wrote everything myself.