magicmike
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My Background
I've just finished a postgrad course. During the whole time I learnt how to build websites. Now I am fully equipped to build websites and web apps. I am torn between finding a job as a developer and going freelance.
I would rather go freelance because I would rather have the flexibility both of location (I can work freelance anywhere in the world) and of time (I can work at 2AM if I want to). On top of this, the scope of work (in terms of how much money I can make, how interesting the work I do will be and how much I will learn), is far higher if I decide to work as a freelancer from the start.
The main challenge for me is finding clients. I have accepted that I will have to do a lot of cold calling to find clients. For some inexplicable reason I find myself resistant to call anyone. I'm not even that afraid of rejection, I think I'm very used to rejection in my life. I think I'm more afraid that my decision to be a freelancer is not viable and I will have to just accept that I will have to work for someone else. Ultimately, I'm afraid of being wrong and failing (failing in the macro scale not the micro scale).
I also have the intuition that with my technical skills (both frontend and backend development), I have the skills to solve many different types of business solutions. Unfortunately there are many businesses out there whose problems I am not aware of and businesses that are not aware of people like me who can help them with their business goals.
I don't think it is helpful for me to set arbitrary monetary goals here because I have no idea what to expect. But I think it will help to log my activity here. In the past I logged my activity on the internet for fitness and I made massive progress when I did.
The self-awareness and accountability is very powerful for me, I think. However to try and be accountable with people I know in real life is unhelpful because: (1) people aren't gonna hold me as accountable as I want them to and (2) there is no written log of my activity for me to look at.
I've just finished a postgrad course. During the whole time I learnt how to build websites. Now I am fully equipped to build websites and web apps. I am torn between finding a job as a developer and going freelance.
I would rather go freelance because I would rather have the flexibility both of location (I can work freelance anywhere in the world) and of time (I can work at 2AM if I want to). On top of this, the scope of work (in terms of how much money I can make, how interesting the work I do will be and how much I will learn), is far higher if I decide to work as a freelancer from the start.
The main challenge for me is finding clients. I have accepted that I will have to do a lot of cold calling to find clients. For some inexplicable reason I find myself resistant to call anyone. I'm not even that afraid of rejection, I think I'm very used to rejection in my life. I think I'm more afraid that my decision to be a freelancer is not viable and I will have to just accept that I will have to work for someone else. Ultimately, I'm afraid of being wrong and failing (failing in the macro scale not the micro scale).
I also have the intuition that with my technical skills (both frontend and backend development), I have the skills to solve many different types of business solutions. Unfortunately there are many businesses out there whose problems I am not aware of and businesses that are not aware of people like me who can help them with their business goals.
I don't think it is helpful for me to set arbitrary monetary goals here because I have no idea what to expect. But I think it will help to log my activity here. In the past I logged my activity on the internet for fitness and I made massive progress when I did.
The self-awareness and accountability is very powerful for me, I think. However to try and be accountable with people I know in real life is unhelpful because: (1) people aren't gonna hold me as accountable as I want them to and (2) there is no written log of my activity for me to look at.
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