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Re:Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig? by dkersten on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @01:03PM (#2383407)
If you ever get a chance, please do, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

I've thought about going into a hard science industry but never did anything about it because 1) I'm not really qualified in the science side, my skills/experience/qualifications are in computer science and 2) I don't really know how to get started.

Re:Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig? by jergason on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @03:12PM (#2383953)
There are opportunities to pick it up. I have worked in bioinformatics labs and have learned tons of biology and chemistry just through osmosis. Also, they always need more people that program well.
Re:Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig? by jules on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @02:18PM (#2383739)
You could get started by watching MIT physics and mathematics opencourseware courses (including video lectures) to see if it suits you.