I have a biology degree but decided to go back to school to get a CS degree. I have had some major health problems this year. Currently I am on disability leave from my job as a pharmacy technician. I do not think I will be able to go back to working a manual labor job and since I can’t drive anymore a traditional in person job person isn’t doable.
Currently, I am sophomore and my main language is Java and I do know some python.
Any suggestions for any part time remote jobs would be appreciated.
I'm 25 graduated 2022 with a bachelor's of science in Computer Science I took a gap year and then was the main care taker for my older family members for my second year.. I haven't coded in that time.. any ideas what jobs will take me as this point. I've applied and not even help desk IT jobs will give me a shot.. Any clues as to what jobs I can get????
I have been teaching myself Python for around two months now(which is nothing I know) but I was wondering since I will be starting my CS schooling, might as well work a part time to help the bills.
So, what are some jobs don't require much experience that are at least semi-related.
Hi guys, I’m entering my second quarter as a sophomore and was wondering what is a good part time job or side job as a CS student that will benefit me when applying for internships later on. I want to have some experience I can put down on my resume that will attract recruiters. Any advice would be appreciate!
Are there any jobs in the field of IT to do as a computer science student 1st year in Australia
I'll have my cs degree in about 2 years. I already have a part time job (I answer phones dispatching for a plumbing company over nights and weekends from home) that pays well. I really can't imagine my life would be dramatically better if I left that and went full time cubicle programming, but are other options really viable? Are there many part time programming jobs or work at home jobs? Is freelancing practical for starting out of college? Or do I have 8 hour days of grinding in a cubicle to look forward to?
Please no "well this isnt for you" comments. There is nothing I like more than programming as far as school is concerned and I've already got several of my classes in, that's just unhelpful advise at this point.
Thanks!
Keep in mind part time often means they set the hours, not you. Have free time this week and desire to work? Nothing to work on.. Wanted to enjoy some family time and relax? Important shit breaks and urgent fix is needed.
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You could probably find some contract jobs that would fit around your schedule.
I currently suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome caused by high functioning autism and cannot work full-time as a software engineer. I am considering looking for a job working 24-hours per week as a software engineer (and forgoing 3/5ths my full-time salary for such a job). I code well, but working too much quickly causes burnout quickly, so this would be an ideal solution for me. What would be your advice for procuring a junior level 24-hour/week software engineering role? Should I email recruiters asking if they have a job that could accommodate me? Should I apply to the small pool of part-time cs jobs on indeed? Or, should I be looking specifically at disability job boards? Currently I am freelancing, and it doesn't appear to be paying the bills that well. I am considering continuing the freelance grind, if I got such a job, but only doing a few hours per week or one project at time. What would reddit's advice be?
I'm a freshman, and while having pocket change would be nice, I'd much rather spend my spare time working on my projects or learning something I'm interested in. My only real bill will be my phone bill, which is roughly fifty a month.
I read a comment on here that said if you were serious about your major, you could easily find work that would be helpful on your CV. It was fairly upvoted so I assumed that meant that the general consensus was to stay away from jobs like fast food and such. If that's true, what sort of jobs would you recommend for a freshman CS major?
I'd really like to either focus on school, or work in something that will be helpful in getting a future job or internship, but am not sure if that's practical.
If it helps, my loans don't have to have payments made on them until I graduate, and I spend 10 hours a week doing community service through a program which pays for about a quarter of my debt. Sorry for the long question, but this is very important for me.
During my undergrad, I had a part time on campus job. I did IT work for my school's department. I upgraded computers, reinstalled OS, installed printers, fixed network issues, etc. (typical help desk work). It was a good job that paid $14/hr and it was technology related so I enjoyed it. During the final year of my undergrad and first year of grad school, I also worked part time at a startup which was very rewarding.
So I recommend you check your school's on campus job listings for IT and tech jobs. There's usually a few positions out there for students. My roommate during undergrad also worked on campus developing an iPhone application for the medical school.
I had to work a part-time job through school. I worked so much I got discouraged and changed majors from Engineering. Worst mistake I ever made.
Having interviewed professionally, nobody cares about these jobs and some will even think less of you for having worked them. If you can get something cool like working IT that'd actually wouldn't be bad. But stay away from anything else unless you need the dough to survive. It's not worth your time, and you'll have nothing left from it when you're done with school. Plus if you're the depressive type, it could fuck you up like it did me.
Make great programming projects. Study computer science and other things to be a well-rounded person. Get a great paying-job with excellent work/life balance and great job satisfaction right out of school. Do it for guys like me who could never get their shit together while in college, and for the guys who never even got the chance.
I’m really broke, like really really broke. I am a second year in university and I’m looking for a part time job where I can apply some of my technical skills and knowledge. I applied to unrelated jobs like grocery and fast food but I’d really like to do some work that is at least somewhat related. Any suggestions?
Edit: I am Canadian
Try to find part time tech support help desk positions. I think Apple used to have a program for students to work part time help desk during school and they would work around your schedule but idk if they still have it
Talk to professors about getting a job as an undergraduate research position if possible.
I graduate in a year or so and I'm pretty much over working in retail and food service between the mind numbing jobs itself, rude customers, general mismanagement and managerial staff with power trips. I already have a cert in Software Dev and I just want something that pays the bills for the time being and ideally gets me some experience before I graduate. I understand that it's not easy to work in this industry part-time (especially without significant experience) but I'm wondering if anyone has found any success in the past with this kind of thing? Any input would be highly appreciated!
Cs itself is still very broad. It's most definitely possible but make sure you're proficient in a niche that provides value to others. From there you could either try to get a part time job or do freelance work.
E.g. if you're good at js, learn a webdev framework such as React and then you can start doing work in that niche. Other ideas might be Python automation, or some data science stuff
would also be interested in any information around this topic
I need to work part-time to support my studies and would like a job related to what I'm studying.
What kind of job should I look for, considering I have a master in NLP (so some data science skills) and 3 months internship experience in software development, but no much knowledge of computing beside that?
Are there any jobs in CS that are particularly good for students almost new to the field (Possibly not related to NLP, if I'm not being too picky, else anything will do)
Most development positions require full time attention. Between meetings, the general activities of updating Jira or checking email as general overhead, even a full time position can be lucky to get 2-5 hours of "in the zone" time to work. Reduce that to part time work, especially with an employee that needs additional training - and its a losing proposition for the company to hire anyone part time.
What you need to find are jobs where the work is moderately low skill along with being interchangeable so that being part time isn't a disadvantage. The classic spot for that within the broader computers and technology is helpdesk.
I would also point out that "at least help desk level of of computer literacy" is a plus on a resume. The "my computer doesn't work and I don't know what to" is something that isn't infrequently heard from other devs... or it may be "my container doesn't work, I don't know what to do."
So, go look at getting a part time job in the help desk. Its better than getting a part time job in retail and presents you as a candidate with a broader set of experiences.
I would usually recommend to get hands on experience in your field of study. So have that part time programming job.
On the other hand I would be hesitant to hire a student myself. Why:
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The work we do in real life could be boring compared to the college curriculum. Would I end up with an unmotivated employee?
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That being said, the problems we solve require undivided attention. Fours hours on Monday and three on Thursday is barely enough to boot your laptop and read the user story.
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Productivity comes from being familiar with our systems and our ways of working. Can you get onboard quick enough as a part-time junior?
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As a junior, how much handholding do you need and does that make financial sense.
It all comes down to how proactive, talented and dedicated you are. My advice: yes do it and be grateful if you can get in.
TSA for the most part— I graduated with a CS degree and no relevant experience yet. I’m looking for ANY tech job I could get ASAP. I keep feeling completely unmotivated because it seems so damn hard to even get a response for SWE job apps I’ve been sending out, so I’m wondering what other career paths I can look into that would allow me to at least make a living at the moment. I’m not completely throwing SWE off the table, but it seems like something to work towards rather than miserably try for given the current market.
Cybersecurity seems like a decent contender, but I feel like I’ve entered analysis paralysis with all of the options there are.
What roles should I look into? What other career paths do employers like hiring CS grads for?
I’ve done my fair share of research, but I just want other peoples opinion from here.
Please take note that when I say "Easiest" I mean easiest to acquire, not necessarily that the work needs to be dumb.
Hello all,
Does anyone in the USA have experience working shorter (20-30 hour) work weeks? Not for an internship, but a "real" job. I graduated with a CS degree in May and recently started my first full-time software development job. The company I'm working for is pretty rigid with its vacation/time-off policy: 2 weeks a year + holidays and a small amount of sick time. Uncompensated time-off doesn't really fly with them unless there's a medical reason or something (FMLA, maternity leave, etc.).
There's nothing wrong with the work itself - I love programming. However, I tend to value my free time pretty highly and money isn't terribly important to me. Barring major life events (health issues, having kids, whatever), I feel that I could live very comfortably on my new grad salary for the rest of my life. I only work 40-45 hours a week, but it's like, I have all this money now, but no free time. Don't get me wrong, I've worked 20+ hours a week on top of going to school since I was 15, but it was always in support of getting my degree. Now that I've got that, I feel like I'm working for the sake of working. Sure, I can save up for retirement, but working for 40 years straight in order to have (optimistically) 20 off isn't super appealing. If I could halve my hours at the cost of half of my salary, I'd jump at the opportunity.
Is this something that exists? I'm afraid of burning out at my job. I only feel productive for about half of the day anyways, so it may even be more cost-effective for a company to hire me this way (though I feel like I'd have a hard time explaining that).
Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Do I just need a swift kick back to reality? Any and all advice is appreciated.
Sure, I can save up for retirement, but working for 40 years straight in order to have (optimistically) 20 off isn't super appealing.
On the contrary: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/
If that interests you, check out r/financialindependence.
I actually have a similar attitude to you. Current highly tentative plan is that I'll work hard for a while and save a lot of money, then become semi-retired, doing freelance gigs at a pace I like, with the nest egg supplementing my income.
Some employers are very receptive to trading off salary for vacation time.
Others aren't.
If it's important to you, it's a high value field, so I'd suggest getting a little experience under your belt and then, during your next job hunt, making it a point to pursue companies willing to offer more vacation time in exchange for lower pay.
Shouldn't be a huge deal.
There are also telecommuting opportunies, the ability to work for yourself as a contractor or consultant, the ability to start your own business, the ability to create products that generate passive income, and a host of other approaches to avoiding the "two weeks vacation per year" thing.
But my two cents says that getting two or three years of good experience under your belt first will help establish you professionally and make those negotiations and efforts significantly easier.
I have never thought that that you could have a part-time cs job. I am supposed to pursue further education in cs the following year and I thought that when you get an internship you are supposed to work 40 hour weeks and go to uni somehow.
If there are part-time cs jobs how long are the hours and how much is the pay?
Can you get and maintain such a job after graduation?
Are you working for an employer part-time or are you just freelancing?
Can you work remotely?
Are there any party-time cs jobs in Romania (I live there) if they exist at all?
Or should I just focus on the course? I know my course is difficult. Do companies usually have internships during the summer? I’m entering first year in September
First year is the year to try and get some part time work in during college as it will be the easiest in terms of work balance. I worked in McDonalds during college and it became quite hard by 3rd and 4th year. You should try to get internships over the summer, think the Google STEP program is specifically towards first years if you are into that but most companies don't take first years and are more looking for 3rd years and onwards
Yeah you can definitely work a job. If you’re willing to work, and can negotiate the flexibility, the hours are definitely there.
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Internships in summers are not only valuable but can pay extremely well (compared to, say, any other part time no experience summer work you might get)
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some unis give you way more flexibility than others in how your lecture/lab schedule turns out
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Some semesters I was able to fit almost 40 hours of work a week around my college work (across 2-3 jobs though. It’s rate to find a single job that’ll be that accommodating)
I’d at least 1, sometimes up to 3 part time jobs throughout all of uni, and i did just fine.
Hello.
I'm a 25 year old Canadian looking to go back to university for computer science to become a software engineer (more-so to become certified and learn what is needed to be a good SWE). I'm working as a network support technician at the moment but it's not for me. I have a diploma in software engineering from a community college and I know I want to be a software engineer.
I plan on studying CS part time while working full time (I will likely get a new, more technical job in a few months). Each year of full time CS is usually 2 semesters on and then one off. I would be spreading those 2 semesters over 3 semesters, essentially taking 2 or 3 courses every semester for 3 years, taking maybe 1 or 2 semesters off in total.
My question is, does it seem likely that I could get a full time entry level programming job while studying computer science part time to make up for the lost coops that I would have gotten in the summer of a full time CS program? My goal would be to switch from a technician job to a entry level SWE job about (best case) 12 months into my part time CS program. If not, then I would definitely want a programming job shortly after graduating.
Does this seem like a reasonable approach? I know it's ideal to do full time CS but my circumstances are a little different as I'm no longer fresh out of high-school. I'd like to continue to advance my current career in IT (for the sake of job security/advancement and financial security) until I get a full time SWE job.
As a side note, I already know which SWE field I want to go into after graduating and will learn/specialize in those technologies on my own time over the 3 years. I plan on contributing to open source projects and building a good portfolio on the side.
I have a lot of free time and no obligations, besides my job, at the moment. No wife, kids, dog or anything like that and as far as I can tell it will be like this for at least another 3 to 4 years.
Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks.
Either way sounds fine, but I would lean towards pushing progress in education as far as you can without straining your finances or yourself too much.
Either way sounds fine, you seem financially stable to be able to succeed with either decision. All about priorities my dude.
I was in a similar scenario where I was choosing between full time work/part time CS studies or part time work/full time CS studies, and I ended up choosing full time work and part time studying. The reason being that I would be less stressed knowing that I have a consistent source of income.
Hi, I’m in high school and I love computer science, I’m learning Java on my own right now and I’m taking my school’s new AP Computer Science class next year and I’m doing a science research project that is mostly written in Java. I have fallen in love with programming. I always loved computers but programming seemed so daunting until I just decided to dive head first into it and I’ve loved every second of it. However, I’m worried about job opportunities. I hear horror stories about how over saturated the industry is with programmers and the lack of jobs. People who go through their whole degree just to end up working at McDonalds for years after college. Is this actually an issue or do people over exaggerate and cherry pick certain stories?
I just finished my GCSE'S (in England), I'm currently on my 3-month Holiday with a lot of free time.
I'm looking to do part-time jobs in the field of Computer Science. If you guys know any good ones, where to look or things I should do in this time I'll accept all information. Thanks for your time!
I want to do software development in the future btw.
Like to seek more perspectives over here. I only had a college related diploma and am interested in understanding the core fundamentals of CS.
I felt that self-studying is tough since it requires tons of self-discipline and also in university it’s structured in a way to make sure you understand well enough. (Quizes/Test)
Some information is I had a family that’s depending on me. I am intending to pursue it while working full time. Will be tough for sure, but I am determined. Just wanted to know if there are better alternatives for my goal.
P.S My son is around 3months old, was hoping if I did complete the journey, he will be around 4. (Easier studying time when he’s young?)
Need some enlightenment on parents who are pursuing CS degree while working.
Thanks in advance!
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This 4 year part time degree has the same curriculum as full time minus away internship.
Hi guys! Sooo I just graduated with my CS degree but I tried the whole working full-time as a software dev thing in the summers during my internship in HS/college and it always led to bad burnout. Does anyone know where I can look to find just simple part-time/short-term jobs? Or like, moreso freelance work that I could pick up? Any keywords I could use? Indeed and Google aren't really turning up what I'm looking for. I'd still like to use my skills I'm just not sure I would be able to work in this field all day every day.