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Ask HN: How can you get started with software consulting/contracting
As a software developer how can you begin your career as a consultant or contractor after gaining some experience
- gregjor 6y agoI’ve been freelance consulting and developing for more than ten years. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-get-clients http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
- soulchild37 6y agoHi Greg, just read this article and some others (joy of maintenance) and what you have written is very inline with my experience, I did a lot of maintenance work (complex shipping rates calculation based on country and product types, optimizing product/cart page to increase conversion) and my clients loved me and don't care what language I am using (Ruby/Rails/Ubuntu) The twitter follow button in your blog doesn't work, have you changed your twitter handle?
- gregjor 6y agoI quit Twitter a year ago. I'll remove that link, sorry. Thanks for reading.
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- mraza007 6y agoAll the points you mentioned in the articles really makes sense. Especially where you mentioned the blog part. I have gotten handful of replies from people after reading my blog but i never got a work opportunity or they wanted to work with me. Looks like i gotta change my strategy