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I get what you're saying. HN is known as a place to generate traffic for your product. After all, that's why I posted it here.

Completely agree with the premise of this article. I'd even put communication slightly ahead of technical aptitude in the skills required to freelance. I've just seen so many freel…

Here's the source regarding being able to make money on elance: http://copyhackers.com/2014/12/how-to-earn-on-elance/

Lean how to sell. When I was in college I got frustrated at not having software dev opportunities and only opportunities working at the mall (I went to college right after the dot …

A lot of salary negotiation and asking comes down to preparation. It's terrifying to ask for one the first time but it's a natural part of employment. The basic principal behind hi…

Great copy! My only issue is with the "How I Can Fix Your SQL Server Woes". Everything prior is the right level on the ladder of abstraction. This section needs to be more specific…

Actually this isn't my article. It's just something I encountered while doing research for my guide.

First I just have to say this was titled "How I launched a productized consulting service in 2 days that brought $15,450 worth of work in the first month" but that was a little lon…

> I assume that these things should be obvious. I'm glad that you've gotten so many takeaways but be very mindful of this. As you've said you didn't see a lot of these things when …

It's never too late to switch or alter the direction of your profession. Plus you're asking for help which means you're moving in the right direction. It sounds like you're at a bi…

This all depends on the environment you're working in. When we used to do lunch and learns they were on Fridays which were blocked off for side projects. Plus half the time we did …

You need to stop thinking of them as 'coders'. When you think of them that way, you're putting them in a box and limiting them. Instead consider them to be a team of people. As you…

> what would you do when your gf/bf/wife/husband complains about it? When my wife complains about it, I just listen. She's also a working professional who works a ton more than I d…

Exactly. In one case I was associated with the work was done with a collaborative research grant. A laboratory had the need for a custom Laboratory Information Management System (L…

As pistoriusp alluded to I'm just trying to gauge interest. But to give you more details these are the things I'm focusing on with the book: 1. Word of mouth referrals. This is the…

Author here. You're exactly correct. I have a ton of drafts on the book so far. But nothing I'm ready to release yet. I've actually been sitting on this landing page for months and…

Another way to approach this is to ask what they consider a day to be? Is it sitting in the chair from 9 to 5? Is it just doing a certain number of features in a day? Does it invol…

I'm hoping so. I got a MS degree in Bioinformatics and for the past three years the only role it has served is collecting dust in my closet upstairs :) I was the young bioinformati…

I submitted this several weeks ago but I ended up rewriting the entire article due to the walls of text. My writing is still a work in progress :)