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Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
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Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...
I'm not telling you specifically who, obviously, but we have 3 clients that order a post from us about once a month for at least $1,000. The posts typically are: - 2000 to 2500 words - FAST (48 hour) turnaround - ready to be published without more than a simple read through - voice consistent with other posts that we may not have written for them - well cited or referenced The clients are - b2b environment selling in…
I can't believe it. Literally.
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#123Learn to write well. You can make 1k-1.5k/month starting next month if you can author good blog posts for businesses. Writing content, like coding, is something where the time investment cannot be "hacked." For a 1200 word blog post someone has to sit at the computer and actually write the 1200 words. That takes time. In many cases there is no content writer on staff and someone has to do the work. I'd say 90% of the…
Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...
$1000 is definitely higher than many, but there are a lot of people who publicly offer to pay $500. I maintain a list of places that do on github [0]
[0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are usually exploited on freelancing sites like UpWork to work for considerably less money than the market value of their work, so I wouldn't recommend that, unless they're in a desperate situation.
OP is in a desperate situation. They already said they have modest needs and are looking to get a foot in the door.
> Considering the COVID situation, In the worst case scenario I'll be without a job for a while. I have finances to manage for (probably) a year and a month or two.
> I'm not looking for job offers out of sympathy. This is just considering the worst case scenario, and I want to have something to fall back to if it turns out to be the case.
They are very, very far from being in a desperate situation, and they have not said that they are looking to get a foot in the door.
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not true. One of the people I'm referring to was under 25 when he landed a $500k USD remote job at a FAANG company. I'd share more, but too many people would figure out who it is. He didn't get that offer by applying directly. The point is not that OP is going to make $500k a year. The point is to be smart about the language and project that you pick and to be reliable, professional, and open to learning quickly and…
> I'd share more, but too many people would figure out who it is. Feels like your example is very specific and would not generalize to the average programmer.
I know many people that did this. Not all of them are making $500k a year, but here is some more examples:
- Multiple Rails contributors, one that turned core. Those folks are making well north of $200k a year.
- Ember contributors or contributors to projects around ember-data or similar. Multiple people making north of $200k a year.
- A guy that dove into contributing to Postgres. He wouldn't even share how much his offer was because it was so insane.
The point is that if you actually put in the work to projects and you network and learn from seasoned developers it's going to be far, far better for your career than grinding out little Fiver or Upwork contracts.
Put another way: Your pay is related to your skills, your professionalism, and your network. Working on the right OS project exposes you to people that are really good at software. Sure you can do the same working for money at the right company, but this guy isn't in that position. So, in my opinion, his best bet is to skill up and network and contribute. Even if he's applying to remote work positions absent a network, a string of commits to Numpy or Rust is going to look a hell of a lot better than "freelancer that did rinky dink work for marketing guys" or "I built a todo list app to show off my skills" and I don't really see why this is so controversial. I'd like to see a counterpoint, honestly. Someone here that worked on a real OS project for a prolonged period of time that has trouble finding work at a reasonable salary.
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#126> I'm a dev with almost no experience > Started coding 3.5 years ago and probably have enough under my belt to try multiple projects over this duration This isn't enough information to go on, 3.5 years of programming could mean you've built your own game engine and a CMS from scratch in an attempt to do some project of yours, or it could mean you've been watching random programming courses sporadicly in hopes of land…
> What third world country has median income of 1500$/month anyway? Many of them: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-income-by...
According to your list, even if you take the household income, 1500/month is 18000/year - which of those countries above 18000 would you describe as third world ?
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#127Don't ask for $1.5k/mo. No one will think of you as valuable if that's what you ask for. People who do pay you that much will treat you like shit and are not the kind of people you want to work with.
The problem is you're referring to yourself as a newbie. I don't know where you're from, but generally in America that would be seen as lack of confidence. Don't be humble. You can learn on the job. Working from home you can easily work 12 hour days if things take you longer than an experinced developer.
Look for companies you'd like to work with. If you're fine with startups which can be generally more approchable I'd look on AngelList. Email the founder or CTO. Talk to them about their problems. Try to be genuinely helpful and understanding. If they have job openings talk about how you can help them. Put everything you did on your CV. Upload your projects on GitHub.
You can absolutely do this, but first you need to change your mindset.
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is bad advice for someone who has only been coding for 3 years (according to OP). People who can make $500k/year through connections they make contributing to open source projects could most likely just apply to a FAANG company directly. It is way more common to see brilliant developers make $0 from open source projects.
3pt14159 isn't saying that noddly should try and make money doing open source. Noddly should gain the respect of an open source maintainer. These maintainers receive lots of requests for job openings and contract positions. Most of it is just recruiter spam, but some of it is real and the maintainer would be happy to forward them on to someone they respect, along with a recommendation. It's that recommendation that's…
I had very few job offers originate from FOSS (maybe 2 in 4 years?). I suspect there's a narrow field where people recruit using FOSS/GitHub and I'm not involved in it. JavaScript based projects seem to be doing much better from an outsider perspective.
I got more out of having a decent looking LinkedIn account.
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#129> I'm a dev with almost no experience > Started coding 3.5 years ago and probably have enough under my belt to try multiple projects over this duration This isn't enough information to go on, 3.5 years of programming could mean you've built your own game engine and a CMS from scratch in an attempt to do some project of yours, or it could mean you've been watching random programming courses sporadicly in hopes of land…
> What third world country has median income of 1500$/month anyway? Many of them: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-income-by...
Might be wrong, but believe the point was not that $1500 is unbelievable, but per the data you linked to - that the “median household income worldwide is $9733“; that and the OP posted $1500 is above and beyond there needs; worth highlighting that is household income, not individual income.
There’s a massive difference $811 a month and $1500 month; $811 is $9733 divided by 12, though really should be the divid by at least 2, since by definition household has at least 2 members.
Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
#130What I've seen that has worked in the past is this: Pick an open source project that is in a language that is respectable and commit to contributing to it for three or four months. Full time. Try to make sure that your written English is clear and professional in things like PRs. Try to keep your code as clean and as well tested and linted as possible. Once the core team gets to know you a bit you'll be able to reach…
I second this. I regularly hire remote devs who can prove themselves with react or node for $2500/mo