问HN:作为软件工程师,你有副业收入吗?
昨天,我和一位朋友进行了长时间的电话交流,她是一位在科技招聘领域工作了十多年的招聘专员。<p>她并不是因为简历或面试而感到疲惫,而是因为工程师们仍然在像2021年那样进行谈判。<p>这就是所谓的“黄金泡沫”。<p>在这个泡沫中,每个前端工程师都是独角兽,每个职位的股权都高达四位数,这种泡沫依然影响着人们的期望。但如今的市场更像是……现实。<p>并不是说人才不被重视,而是价值的形态发生了变化。<p>那些对较低的股票授予或额外的办公室工作日感到不满的工程师们,想要公平并没有错……他们只是在依附于一个已经不存在或可能很快消失的世界。<p>我不相信投降,我相信重新校准。<p>当我们停止假装市场没有变化,开始问自己:我如何创造一个不依赖泡沫的职业?我该建立什么,不与单一的职位或公司的股价挂钩?<p>我今天交谈中最有趣的人,已经在平行思考:指导、写作、咨询、顾问、构建副项目、多元化,这不是出于恐惧,而是因为“一个工作=稳定身份”的旧叙事已经不再成立。<p>我很好奇:作为一名软件工程师,你是否有副收入?如果有,什么对你有效(或无效)?
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Yesterday, I had a long call with a friend, a tech recruiter with over a decade in the field.<p>She was tired not from resumes or interviews, but from engineers, still negotiating like it’s 2021.<p>The “golden bubble”.<p>Where every frontend engineer was a unicorn and every offer had quadruple-digit equity, that bubble still shapes expectations. But the market today is more like… reality.<p>It’s not that talent isn’t valued. It’s that value has changed shape.<p>The engineers who bristle at lower stock grants or extra days in office aren’t wrong to want fairness… they’re just anchoring to a world that no longer exists or might quickly disappear.<p>I don’t believe in surrender. I believe in recalibration.<p>What happens when we stop pretending the market is unchanged, and start asking: How do I create a career that isn’t a bubble-dependent bet? What do I build that isn’t tied to a single job title or company’s stock price?<p>The most interesting people I talk to today are already thinking in parallel streams: mentoring, writing, consulting, advising, building side projects, diversifying, not out of fear, but because the old narrative of one job = stable identity doesn’t hold.<p>I’m curious: do you have side income as a software engineer? If so, what’s worked (or not) for you?