Developer Freelancing Advice

I work freelance contract, usually 3 to 12 months at a time as an extension of a dev team. This keeps it technically exciting for me, get to meet new people, and depending on my mood, I might look for projects that are more laid back and chill (BigCo with many junior / midlevel devs, who need a couple of new features), or where I need to learn new tech quickly (small team with only senior devs), or where I can set my own hours (remote team with very few meetings) and work from 5 AM to 1 PM

why not start a side project but doing freelance / consulting? Contract work can take up a lot of time and energy.

Mine is to do freelance job in between to support myself in building my own ideas. If you are good and find the appropriate clients, freelancing can give you a good amount of money to have some runway before getting anther contract.

I've never been able to work for someone else for too long (starts being noticable after a year).So I started freelancing / consulting. You don't have to be an entrepreneur and build a product or a company. It's not a grind (or at least it doesn't have to be - you can choose how much effort you want to spend).But you do need to take business side of things - finding clients, making them pay, making sure your financials are in order and other non-"tech" ta

Have you considered going independent and getting a few clients on retainer? That’s what I do and most of my clients stick around for 5+ years and often have bigger projects to work on from time to time. I work around 20 hours most weeks and make enough to live a comfortable life. There is a lot of work out there If you can sell your skills.

have you tried freelancing ? customer-supplier relationship is very different from employer/employee. it’s hard at first because you have to negociate a deal, but it gives a lot of freedom.

finding freelance work is easy, depends how much and what kind of work you want to do. fiver to upwork & freelance... but you will miss exploring new stuff. but side project will turn you into a machine, if you don't find something interesting or aligning with your interests. Must charge more than normal day time. I do it just for fun and don't charge much but i only do it to buy stuff online as my bank account doesn't support buying books, games & apps online. (i don&#

I'm doing this as well as freelancer. Mostly I work on an opensource project that day, sometimes I use it for learning something new. Reason I started this was that I do not have the energy to do such things on the weekend (otherwise I'm constantly tired at work) and I still did want some productive spare-time. Unfortunately as freelancer this means 20% less pay (at least in the short run) and you need a client allowing for that, but after doing that for more than year now I still feel it's wort

Have you considered freelancing?

I haven't seen anyone mention freelancing, but sounds like a good solution for you.From my experience there are 2 approaches to freelancing. 1. work hard and hustle, get larger and larger contracts and eventually make a lot of money (>faang level).2. work little, use freelancing websites, make a little money paid hourly but with low stress, work when you want, stop when you want etc.This might work for you if you don't care much about money and care more about your time. Al