Contract Work - Where to find? What is needed? What are people looking for?

[macrodegenerate]

I'm looking for a shit ton of contract work. I have a brick and mortar high end surf shop and I'm the only one running it so I'm doing like 12 jobs, all badly. I dont know how to find someone who has the experience and expertise to make the big improvements I need to my web shop which will improve direct sales and also SEO ranking. I know its a lot of time and work and money to be spent over time, I just wish I could pay for the time of a consultant to review what i have and give me guidance on the best way to allocate my budget. SEO and ads are total black boxes to people like me with no experience. I'm also always looking for people who can make motion graphics, mock-ups, and make creative website assets for products using PS and any other tools. I have tried Fiverr and have never been satisfied with anything they made me. I have worked with several people locally, some of which are amazing but have full time jobs and cant do all the stuff i need and others who have been incompetent who i paid jsut to fuck off. its hard to evaluate a good fit for people with he type of stuff i want to make, and the application of the projects.

Are you looking on the farms for this?

 

[One Winged Pear Farmer]

It’s nearly always a trap

 

[Major]

maybe do training for AI? No taxes then cause it's all cash in hand.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

I hear mobile game dev makes a lot of money. Web design must be flooded by pajeets who can write HTML5. Cybersecurity might need a lot of habds on experience which I do not have. No experience with cloud, but I'm not a retard so I can set stuff up (not sure if it helps much) , setting up computers, etc. Anyway my skillset is pretty vast.

Are there any reliable services or websites?

If you're talking website stuff I'm sure there's a lot of boomer mom & pop stores in need of your services. If you pound the pavement you'll find them. Then they'll all recommend you at the local Chamber of Commerce or whatever. I did that for a summer once. Pure Oddjobery. It was fun until winter came - then I was just jobless and odd. (But that was knuckle-dragger work, not code-monkey work.)

But the more important question may be: how is your psychology when the steady paycheque stops coming in? Some people immediately go survival mode and batten the hatches. Which is unpleasant. Generally you have to say yes to every client until you can afford to be choosey.

 

[postfeetpls]

avoid being a code monkey for any foreseeable future, Ai will wipe out entire departments in matter of few years

I just don't see this happening. Companies need advanced and senior developers who can build large, scalable systems following certain standards and requirements, making adjustments and adapting every step of the way. You don't get senior devs out of thin air, you create them. AI has insane capabilities but I don't see the entirety of the software industry running on AI.
Creating software goes way beyond the scope of prooompting and every capable developer knows that.

 

[Dawdler]

I just don't see this happening. Companies need advanced and senior developers who can build large, scalable systems following certain standards and requirements, making adjustments and adapting every step of the way. You don't get senior devs out of thin air, you create them. AI has insane capabilities but I don't see the entirety of the software industry running on AI.
Creating software goes way beyond the scope of prooompting and every capable developer knows that.

Yes, but they need only 1 sen dev and the rest of indian 1 cent army is gonna get wiped.
Coders are nothing but expense for corp.

 

[postfeetpls]

Yes, but they need only 1 sen dev and the rest of indian 1 cent army is gonna get wiped.
Coders are nothing but expense for corp.

If(when) AI gets to the point where it can do the job of whole teams of developers with low enough error, developers will be a drop in the ocean of jobs it will annihilate. Designers, devops, customer and tech support, engineers, architects, lawyers, system analysts, bankers, accountants, dispatchers in every field requiring any form of dispatch, medical diagnosis, sales, marketing, any form of desk clerk job, pilots, drivers, etc etc etc
Just think about it for a moment and stop telling people to "don't learn to code". What should someone learn to do if we're expecting AI singularity within a few years? Only jobs safe from automation are the ones so manually intensive they're just not worth automating(yet).

 

[Dawdler]

What should someone learn to do if we're expecting AI singularity within a few years?

Plumbing

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

You don't get senior devs out of thin air, you create them.

That's a future problem, when the senior devs actually retire. Now we have senior devs moving from company to company to get the biggest salary.

What happens where there are no more senior devs? Short the company and flee the sinking ship.