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When you say full stack, what exactly is your stack? I know a lot of full stack engineers that are IIS > ASP > HTML and cant find anything, while other friends

When you say full stack, what exactly is your stack? I know a lot of full stack engineers that are IIS > ASP > HTML and cant find anything, while other friends that are Linux > PHP > > JS >HTML/CSS are drowning in proposals right now. Finding a steady stream of consulting work is never easy. Some consultants rely strictly on referrals, while others take the paid route and drive leads via PPC or email marketing. There are obviously other routes such as forums and job boards. One router I see a lot of consultants taking right now is blogging. Blog about the projects you are working on and turn them into a live portfolio. Market your github profile. With 5 years of experience if you truly are a full stack programmer (with decent communication skills) you should have no problem at all finding work. Good luck!

jxm262 11y ago
I have about 3 years Java world (Tomcat/Webstorm + JEE + Oracle/PLSQL, and Spring, Hibernate all that jazz). And about 2 years in Node + Angular/React + AWS. My question was more how to get good rates and still do it as a part-time side gig since I work full time. I've already had offers for full time work :) Yeah, after talking with a bunch of people from this thread I _will_ be blogging/marketing my github profile/give lightning talks. For the moment, I'm trying to network as much as possible without sounding needy and putting in as much time as I can into open source to get experience, have something to show the world. My goal now is to become the expert of 1 or 2 domains in my local area so people are basically forced to notice me.