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Unsure about how to get started with freelancing as experienced engineer
I searched posts related fo freelancing but still did not find how to actually get started. Especially, when you have no previous work done, no reviews. I am experience engineer with 5.5+ YOE but I don't have OS contribution or projects which are created for clients. I only have 3 projects on github which are side projects that I worked on. In such scenario, I have few questions:
\* How to find clients in your network especially non-Indian clients when most of Linkedin connections are just random people you have connected and not someone you know IRL?
\* Do you need to create projects specifically for your portfolio? If yes then what kind of projects are we talking about?
\* One of the strategy suggested in some posts was cold mailing after analyzing their products but this take a long time to find issues and then pitching but is that general consensus?
\* Upwork and Fiverr are saturated and upwork has limited proposals after which paid proposals are required. Is that worth putting money into? I tried to create 2 gigs on Fiverr but they got paused eventually as no traction was there.
\* Are there any other platforms other than the above two? Contra, toptal, lemon.io - all of these did not work at least for me
#dev #programming #technology
I searched posts related fo freelancing but still did not find how to actually get started. Especially, when you have no previous work done, no reviews. I am experience engineer with 5.5+ YOE but I don't have OS contribution or projects which are created for clients. I only have 3 projects on github which are side projects that I worked on. In such scenario, I have few questions:
\* How to find clients in your network especially non-Indian clients when most of Linkedin connections are just random people you have connected and not someone you know IRL?
\* Do you need to create projects specifically for your portfolio? If yes then what kind of projects are we talking about?
\* One of the strategy suggested in some posts was cold mailing after analyzing their products but this take a long time to find issues and then pitching but is that general consensus?
\* Upwork and Fiverr are saturated and upwork has limited proposals after which paid proposals are required. Is that worth putting money into? I tried to create 2 gigs on Fiverr but they got paused eventually as no traction was there.
\* Are there any other platforms other than the above two? Contra, toptal, lemon.io - all of these did not work at least for me
#dev #programming #technology
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