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Re:I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time by vsareto on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:41PM (#28028750)
This stuff probably gets easy once you have 20 years of experience you can show to potential clients like he does.

Once you have that, you can attract other senior people to your lifestyle business, which seems like what has happened: https://www.expatsoftware.com/services.html

Even with 6 years personally, going to clients on your own is intimidating

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Re:I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time by alexr243 on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:22PM (#28092892)
Yeah that may be true in most cases, but I think it's possible with much less experience.

This is anecdotal, but I graduated college a couple of months ago and I've been freelancing for the past year and a half in my free time by building things for crypto startups. It's a (little bit) niche, but it's worked out well for me and I'm on track to pay off my student loans from my freelance work while also working full time. I think you just need to go for it. I don't really have much formal experience (3 SWE internships in college), and I've been able to make good hourly rates at $50-100 an hour for my time.

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