Freelance – current state of affairs.
I have to admit, I had not picked up a freelance project in quite some time. Its summer, I have no desire to code after work, I got comfortable with my financial situation – you name it. I have not been actively seeking projects, just enjoying my free time. However, lately I decided to get back into freelance game, but I am not having any luck.
Back when I was actively pursuing freelancing, I had some previous customers who would provide me with occasional contract, craiglist and couple of sites that put clients and coders together. I even paid for membership at guru.com, which by the way was not a wise investment. There are tons of sites that freelancers can go to get some work, but I can’t imagine that if you live in North America, you will make any kind of money from those. Take Guru.com – today, flipping through roughly 10 pages of projects under “Programming” – not a single project where client is prepared to pay more then $500.00. I am not a greedy guy, but if I have to choose to code something for less then $500 and go play ball hockey with my son, I choose ball hockey any day.
Maybe the fact that I am focused on desktop development rather then web coding is affecting my success with freelance projects, I guess that is a big part of it as the web seems to be hot and desktop is not. Still, I know that there are people out there that needs a quality software developed, and I am their guy.