Going to lose my current, non software development job due to replacement (not by AI, but by other humans), and I have a quite limited number of skills. I especially bad with waking up early, so most “local” (requires 2 hours of travel) factory jobs are out.
I don’t have a portfolio of great companies I worked at, nor with games I worked on, nor with websites. I also live far away from job opportunities that are relevant for me.
I’m personally more afraid of my mother, who believes, Hungary has easy to access “DEI grants”, so she sent me all places for an “official autism diagnosis” (including an asylum, in the middle of a pandemic), so employers will be lining up for me with all kind of job opportunities, because she read that on a nazi news site. Reality is ableism is so rampant I get called slurs at worst, and otherwise I have to deal with conspiracy theories aimed at me straight out of Forrest Gump. She wants me to apply to all unqualified positions I can, because she read that as a suggestion online.
What do these evening jobs normally entail? They sound awesome lol.
I don’t want to dox myself by saying too many details or accurate listings, but the one I worked at was basically:
Other I saw occasionally in multiple locations:
forestfire watch. You sit in a tower in a forest and look around with binoculars every quarter hour. If you see smoke, you try to figure out where it is on a map and notify somebody. Three 8h shifts, so you can pick day, evening or night.
sleep research facility, where you go help the sleepers, if they have some issue in the middle of the night.
Security guard is one. Had a friend in college that basically got paid 8hrs/night to do 2hrs of actual work and 6hrs of building his portfolio. It can definitely work well for some folks.