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Those smaller jobs you get - how many weeks long are those, usually? One of my "fears" of doing contract work is having to support clients forever just because

• tgflynn 4y ago
  Why would you ever "have" to support clients ? That's the main point of freelancing. The client pays you either for a certain number of hours of work or to do a specific project. You're never obligated to do anything beyond what was agreed on. Repeat work is usually desirable though, because getting new clients is often the hardest part of being a freelancer. As for how big the projects are it varies a lot and anyway my information would be way out of date so the best way to find out is to sign up and see what kind of jobs people are posting. When I was doing it you could often find jobs like building a simple website, a scraper or basic data processing or analytics scripts that could be done in a week or even a few days.
• jrumbut 4y ago
  In any kind of freelancing you have to have a contract and you have to be careful what you say (especially in any form of writing, not just letters but email, chat, text, etc). It doesn't have to be the most elaborate contract. I know others will disapprove but I wrote mine myself. Fortunately it was never tested in court but, at least once, reviewing the terms at a time of disagreement protected both sides from embarking on a costly and painful legal process.