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Wouldn’t you make more as a remote contractor? Even on Upwork?
by spoonjim 5y ago
Wouldn’t you make more as a remote contractor? Even on Upwork?
- akvadrako 5y agoI'm not sure about Upwork, but certainly on better contracting sites like A-Team, Moonlight and Toptal. It's not even necessary to have a network.
- KronisLV 5y agoI actually used Upwork before finding the current company, which provided stable income while i was in University. Upwork itself oftentimes feels like a race to the bottom, but i had some interesting projects as well: everything from web development (though WordPress stuff can be frustrating), to things like stock visualization, programming for video games, some physics simulations etc. Those were all far more interesting than the CRUDs that the company developed, though thankfully i also picked up things like CI/CD, unit testing, integration testing and test automation in general, as well as many other things related both to development and DevOps. As far as finances go, working for an European company abroad would probably be the wise thing to do, or looking for a local company that pays better, as many suggest most developers should do every X years.