alt Hacker NewsSo unlike some folks, I’m still very much reliant on $DAYJOB for the majority of my income. But I managed to carve out a niche in an unexpected place.
OS/2 consulting
It all started when I made a connection through a OS/2 community post asking for help on some CNC equipment running OS/2, and it turned out that they were fairly local to me, so I now have an occasional source of income in the form of troubleshooting and debugging OS/2 boxes.
I’m slowly building up contacts to do more. This isn’t ever going to entirely replace my normal 9 to 5, but it’s really good side work and gives me something to do.
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bombcar • yesterday at 5:23 PM
The nice thing about a niche like this is that once they use you for fixing an old OS/2 box, you're on the list for other things, too.
I'd love to get some gigs in retro software development for OS/2, MS-DOS, Motif/CDE, etc...