Ask HN: Is it realistic to earn £1000/$1600 per week?

Re:Ask HN: Is it realistic to earn £1000/$1600 per week? by jtreminio on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:44AM (#6915398)

$1,600 USD is very realistic.

I work full time, but also spend ~12 hours a week on freelancing, and am making ~$2,000 every 2 weeks from this.

If I went full-time I could make more, I think, and so could you.

I focus almost exclusively on PHP, but also offer Vagrant/Puppet services that go well together with my PHP projects.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it realistic to earn £1000/$1600 per week? by jbrooksuk on Monday December 16, 2013 @11:53AM (#6915957)

So if you're working 12 hours a week as a freelancer, how do you propose this to your customer? "I can do the work over the course of a week, whilst doing 3 hours a day", or something?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it realistic to earn £1000/$1600 per week? by jtreminio on Monday December 16, 2013 @11:57AM (#6915990)

Exactly. I make it extremely clear that my time is limited, and that my available time is during off-business hours during the weekdays, and on Sat/Sun.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it realistic to earn £1000/$1600 per week? by jbrooksuk on Monday December 16, 2013 @12:32PM (#6916281)

Awesome, glad I'm not going about this the wrong way.

I'm doing a lot of work at the moment; overtime and freelancing. Juggling time is always hard.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it realistic to earn £1000/$1600 per week? by zuzuleinen on Monday December 23, 2013 @09:29AM (#6954370)

How do you find your clients? Are you using services like Elance or Odesk?

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