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Re: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

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Post by flarg »

wikibob wrote: post #58
zimpenfish wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 100k+ as a freelancer is significantly more rare What are we meaning by "freelancer" here? I'm taking it (as a UKian) to mean "contractor" and every contractor I know is on £100k+ (which is currently ~$129k).

Can you share a story or two? I'm interested in the UK contracting market. The pay for salaried positions in the UK Is shockingly low.

Depends who you work for. A solid LinkedIn plus the subscription option, with stints in the big 5 and some solution architect experience gets you some decent money.

Re: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

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Post by metaloha »

TomMarius wrote: post #4
metaloha wrote: post #3

Front-end JS for the oil-and-gas industry. Custom, industry-specific customer-facing web applications. Interesting work, but the business logic required by some companies is freakin' terrifying :)

How did you get into this kind of work?

Front-end JS? Need, mainly. Most of the UI/UX people I worked with have not maintained their skills, and I was getting tired of knowing more and doing better work than them in their own field. As it happens, there's a much better market for that work than for the back-end and architectural work I've been doing the past couple of decades.

Oil-and-gas? Luck - I live in a city with a lot of head offices. Eventually almost everyone works for one of them :) It was just my turn. But it looks like a long-term gig, which is great.

Re: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

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Post by metaloha »

King-Aaron wrote: post #23
metaloha wrote: post #3

Front-end JS for the oil-and-gas industry. Custom, industry-specific customer-facing web applications. Interesting work, but the business logic required by some companies is freakin' terrifying :)

Yeah anything to do with HMI is often quite lucrative. You're not with Honeywell by chance are you?

No, but if I was, I bet I could keep them from having to reboot their cloud services every week!

Re: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

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Post by metaloha »

vogt wrote: post #19
metaloha wrote: post #3

Front-end JS for the oil-and-gas industry. Custom, industry-specific customer-facing web applications. Interesting work, but the business logic required by some companies is freakin' terrifying :)

if you're in TX and want to network with a ui/ux designer, would love to chat. i have been wanting to get into this business for a while.

I'm not in Texas - I'd love to visit someday, I know a couple of people who lived in Houston until a few days ago.

I'm in Alberta, Canada - kind of a sibling to Texas :)

Re: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

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Post by vogt »

metaloha wrote: post #64
vogt wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you're in TX and want to network with a ui/ux designer, would love to chat. i have been wanting to get into this business for a while.

I'm not in Texas - I'd love to visit someday, I know a couple of people who lived in Houston until a few days ago. I'm in Alberta, Canada - kind of a sibling to Texas :)

It is kind of a sibling to Texas in a lot of ways. Too cold for me though. If you ever find yourself in the Dallas-Fort Worth area drop me a line.

Re: Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

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Post by kk58 »

metaloha wrote: post #3

Front-end JS for the oil-and-gas industry. Custom, industry-specific customer-facing web applications. Interesting work, but the business logic required by some companies is freakin' terrifying :)

I work in oil. Curious to learn more about your experience. What do your apps do? Whats terrifying?
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