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Yes, Moved to Eastern Europe to reduce cost of life, Freelance on Upwork, work about 6-8 hours a week. Absolutely, should have done it years ago. I rediscove
by rwaksmunski 4y ago
Yes,
Moved to Eastern Europe to reduce cost of life, Freelance on Upwork, work about 6-8 hours a week.
Absolutely, should have done it years ago.
I rediscovered the joys of programming by learning Rust, I rediscovered they joys of hobbies (photography, car wrenching, modeling, 3d printing, bicycling, weight lifting). Wife gets at least 2 full days a week to do whatever she wants together. We often visit old European cities for a 5 day weekend. What else. Rehabbed my childhood home, rehabbed my Wife's log cabin in the mountains. Looking for a historical flat in the old town part of nearby large city. Life is not bad.
- robertcope 4y agoYou do all that on 6-8 hours of work a week?
- rwaksmunski 4y ago$1k a week goes a long way here.
- xupybd 4y agoWhat is life like on Upwork? Is there a lot of wasted time and low paying contracts?
- rwaksmunski 4y agoNot really, I set my rate at $150/h. Most of my work comes from clients I've had for years.
- systemshutdown 4y agoWhat type of software do you produce with Rust for your clients? If I may ask.
- rwaksmunski 4y agoSo far, parsing common crawl database at line speed, rewriting a lot of AWS Lambda functions, embedded systems upgrade scripts, few ESP32 deep embedded devices, REST API backends, custom key-value stores, custom TLS terminator, etc, etc. A lot of my other work is ancient PHP, SysAdmin stuff and performance troubleshooting.