Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my SRE and DevOps experience
Hi, I worked as a System Administrator and DevOps for last 10 years, but right now I experienced burnout and had to quit my job. My savings are running out but I still don't feel I'll be able to work full time without it detrimentally affecting my mental health.
I was thinking about doing some tutoring and did some of that for my friends studying IT, and for my mental health it seems optimal, as I like doing it and don't feel mental strain associated with doing my job. I also wrote a Linux tutorial long ago and was thinking about doing more of this as it turns out that I really like to teach, but life and full time job interfered with those plans. For those interested my tutorial is saved here: https://archive.is/xDb8o
Please tell me if you know how I can earn some money doing Linux tutoring and maybe mentoring, maybe through some companies or communities interested in that. I have a decade of experience working with Linux, FreeBSD, computers networks, and so on and so forth up to modern things and practices like Chaos Engineering, AWS, CI/CD, Ansible and so on.
Also I might be able to do some part-time jobs with load of several hours per day, if you know where I should seek for those I'd be grateful too. Assuming you have looked at the seeking usual contractor sites, one idea is to hang around online in places where startup founders and other entrepreneurs hang out. Often times, a small team or single person is winging it trying to get something off the ground without much technical background and you can offer to help them complete a simple project, e.g. set up our AWS vpc, help us deploy this app, etc.