On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:20 PM Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2020-04-08 16:29, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > > Question - how does a semi retired person secure part time projects ? > There > > is a difficulty getting past the 40 hour a week retirement... > > This may sound facetious, but it's not meant to be. It all depends on > what you want out of the part time project(s). > > If your objective is to do something interesting and mind-stimulating in > your newly enlarged spare time, then there are massive number of open > source projects you could contribute to. There's a very good chance that > some such projects line up well with your outside interests. > Ain't none of z/OS, unfortunately. At least as far as I know. > > On the other hand, if your objective is to get paid for your part-time > efforts, things are much tougher. Most employers want to see a full-time > commitment from their employees, and ageism is real. > I guess that is true for I.T. But I sometimes wonder about consultants. I don't know, but it might be possible to get a short time contract to do or help with somw project. But have a lawyer do the contract limiting your liabilities for any company percieved "failures". I might be too cynical, but I can easily imagine a manager saying that the contract was not fulfilled & refusing to pay -- it helps his bottom line. And, yes, I've had an I.T. manager tell me we were not upgrading CICS because the newer vwrsion would increase the I.T. budget and decrease his bonus. Is there a consulting company which hires "part timers"? I might want try this when my shop goes under (sched 1Q2021). But the interaction between working & Social Security is an unknown to me. > > -- > > Regards, Gord Tomlin > Action Software International > (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) > Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 > Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
