preamble
A post in the blogosphere"The Unemployed 40-Year-Old Programmer, What's the Future?The following message, currently doing their own freelancing, many people add friends to consult freelancing things, freelancing in the IT industry is more interested in, asking how to go on this road, so today's article. Put yourself on the road to freelancing this road to say the next situation.
main body (of a book)
Current status: I'm 84 and have been freelancing for over 6 years since I started freelancing in Freedom '18. Currently not worried about work, not worried about projects. Because it's more stable. It is indeed more refreshing. Traveling more for projects this year and working from home more before that.
Going down the freelancing path is also purely accidental, but it definitely takes its own buildup. Have their own characteristic advantages. So from the experience of people who have been there, if you work less than 5 years, without accumulating enough resources in advance do not recommend that you leave your job to freelance, you will starve to death. Earn less than work more. Seen a lot of small teams received a project 2,3 people out, dry half a year project delivery, did not get the final payment. Insist on not going to work again.
The path I've traveled shouldn't apply to the vast majority of people, so just refer to it for your own personal characteristics.
1. Accumulate enough favorable resources, how many resources do you have now to support you to do freelancing. For example: how many people in the industry do you know now who can bring you projects? Ask yourself whether it is stable. Of course, how to accumulate resources is a discipline, reliable, responsible, but also some sets of rules to follow.
I now IT industry weibo friends have exceeded the weibo staff limit, the number is still increasing. 80% are software industry friends, the annual project introduction is also considered stable. 95% of my projects are introduced by friends or friends of friends. New friends into old friends need 1~2 years.
2. What are the advantages of their own, what products, so that others recognize you. For example: do software can think of you at once.
18 years began to form a Jinan, Qingdao IT circle (IT practitioners nearly ten thousand people, software companies about a thousand). Sort of Jinan's largest software circle, but also to maintain the beginning of the original intention. (a.. Let the reliable. There are technical. IT practitioners to live a better life. Two. Help fresh graduates find suitable jobs in advance. Three. Help programmers and IT workers after the age of 35 to get rid of the fear of unemployment.)
3. Find the right path for you.
Some people are just good at programming and writing code, so can they write a software product of their own? Open source first to make friends
I'm probably better suited to linking friends, organizing IT development circles and IT companies, giving free services, and making lots of IT friends.
4. find ways to cash in on your skills
Skill liquidation is just your first step, taking the first step is the only way to replicate the skill later and turn the skill into a product.
status quo
1. having reached the age of forty, I really don't worry about work and projects now, I start to worry about my body.
2. Some people may be concerned about income, if they do well than work comfortable than work earn more. Because, you go to work is to take skills and time and the company for money is the lowest exchange.
3. Now continue to do their favorite things IT industry related to some projects and consulting. By the way, do not think and the threshold of low industry friends to compete (for example: drop, takeout), I have development friends around did find a this retreat, can only be said to be miserable.
pending
1. busy with the matter at hand (in several projects in parallel to promote), give yourself a long vacation driving trip, want to go to the clouds, Guizhou and Sichuan side to see.
2. the only hobby or like the car, next year intends to change the V90CC. in recent years for a number of cars, I feel that the Volvo and Volvo more with. Now I've been driving a Volvo for the longest time.
A final word to those reading the article:Intelligence is easy to come by, dependability is hard to find. When you don't find something with a clear profitable direction, do what makes sense for everyone.
For those who are interested in freelancing, you can add my wechat: sddev2020 and do something meaningful together.
