Title: Hello HN,<p>In short: Is there any way to become a part-time PM (or similar)?<p>You helped me tremendously getting my first properly paid and interesting full-time PM job at a bigger company (and luckily with little overtime, but part-time is probably no option).¹ I plan to do this job for at least a year (for vita, experience and money), but ultimately I want to work part-time.<p>I could easily live on my current salary (just with less savings) and want to have more free time for side-projects and a generally better work&#x2F;life balance.<p>All I have right now is vague plans on how to find something part-time: I will stay on the lookout on job-offers, hoping for startups that can&#x27;t afford full-time positions. Alternatively I thought of freelancing, but here the generalist qualities of a PM (project or product) might make it a bit harder to sell myself and I&#x27;m not the very best at networking either. And freelancing is never part-time, right? Should I apply for full-time positions and try to convince them of doing part-time?<p>With product management, or more precisely writing concepts and non-technical requirements I could imagine contract work. But I don&#x27;t really know if this is a thing.<p>About me: 30yo; in Germany; OK with leaving the country for a while; with a slightly off masters degree;<p>If you got any ideas or took a similar path in the past, let me know! Thanks you :)<p>¹ https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13409239 (thank you so much for all the answers here)
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