A bunch of people already touched on probably the easiest way to do it: converting your full-time job to part time. I wrote about it here if it's helpful to you: <a href="https://parttimetech.substack.com/p/easiest-part-time-tech-job" rel="nofollow">https://parttimetech.substack.com/p/easiest-part-time-tech-j...</a>.<p>If that's not an option or doesn't work, there are agencies like <a href="https://www.forward.id/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forward.id/</a> that try to connect people to fractional work, and I created a job board as well <a href="https://parttimetech.io" rel="nofollow">https://parttimetech.io</a>.<p>Good luck!
There are plenty of part-time remote <i>consulting</i> opportunities in software, if you can already demonstrate your worth in a valuable niche.<p>But there are relatively few part-time employment opportunities - the 5-day, 40 hour week "company man" idea still holds with many employers. If you're not already an expert in some field, employers will see hiring you as a long-term, full-time investment that deserves a similar commitment in turn.
Probably not the answer you're looking for but a path I've seen coworkers take:<p>1- Start full-time on site.<p>2- Move full-time remote.<p>3- Switch part-time remote.<p>Between each step is several months of implicitly proving that you'd still be valuable even with the changes.
Part time remote work is available anecdotally.<p>Statistically, it doesn’t exist.<p>Which is to say that only a tiny sliver of jobs are part time remote and generally, they only exist because of an established relationship between a particular employee and a particular employer.<p>Basically, the employer creates a part time remote position for someone they know.<p>Open call part time remote work looks like Amazon Mechanical Turk.<p>Again, anecdotally this isn’t always the case. But statistically it is probably >99.99%.<p>So relationships are the most likely way to find such work.<p>Good luck.
Here is a hack:<p>1. Find a full time remote job<p>2. Do amazing and become very valuable to the team<p>3. Start telling your boss/team that you are considering doing a few less hours per week. See their reaction. Remember, you only do this IF you are very valuable/important to the team already.<p>4. Make a formal request to switch to part time with a plan on how you will work during the week to get things done.<p>5. Profit