I did some freelance jobs on the side while I was still working full-time, all of it being remote even if the client would be in the same city, then I would jus

I did some freelance jobs on the side while I was still working full-time, all of it being remote even if the client would be in the same city, then I would just drop by for demo's and meetings. My full-time job consisted of working in remote teams for mostly US customers. While I was working for a certain customer through my day job I was the only person in the building working for that particular customer and there was no real necessity to be in the office. I was effectively fully remote from that point. At a given point I got a new customer that basically wanted to hire me for 20 hours per week, which would mean I could sustain my life with it and I left my day job. Building upon that I landed two customers through LinkedIn, one lead through YouTube (some intelligent comment somewhere...that was pretty weird though!), some more work from local and remote customers I had before and then I rolled into TopTal. TopTal has a steady stream of really interesting work. I had a pretty sudden drop in work from one customer and I could fill it up in a week or two by taking TopTal work. Now I remain on one TopTal client and for the rest I'm working directly for customers. TopTal pays a bit less but is a lot less headache and most of the work is pretty good. The sites that are recommended in this article didn't do anything useful for me. I still don't know really how I manage to keep a full roster apart from TopTal but somehow customers know how to find me. Lot of referrals too.