I highly recommend to anyone wanting to be a professional software developer to do at least 4 years in one or more proper software development companies as an employee developer. You will learn professional software development practices that you don't really pick up other places. And you can also use it as an opportunity to build a network of trusted colleagues that will be a great source of future contract work if you do decide you'd rather freelance.
If you're absolutely dead set on freelancing right from the get go, then consider freelancing as a team member on larger teams rather than taking on your own full stack projects. Cheers, --Jon On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Nicholas Shook <[email protected]> wrote: > sorry this is late. fwiw, I got my first job after doing a live coding > kata at my local ruby group. I tried and failed a few times before (and > very miserably so), but once I got it down it wasn't too hard to find a job. > > > On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 11:37:25 AM UTC-7, Chad H. Naylor wrote: >> >> Thanks for the responses guys! Is it hard to find remote and freelance >> stuff? How does that usually work? >> >> Thanks again, >> Chad >> >> On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 7:41:52 PM UTC-7, Chad H. Naylor wrote: >>> >>> Hey Everyone, >>> >>> When I graduate in June I am going to be looking for my real rails gig. >>> I have been working part-time in a small rails team at calit2 for the past >>> year and a half ish, but I have no real experience in looking for or >>> applying to a real full-time developer position. Does anyone have some >>> advice on how to find and land my first rails gig? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Chad >>> >> -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
