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Freelancing

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 12:57

I'm wrapping up my second year of CS undergrad and I'm starting to burn out a bit.  My goal is to get my degree and live the "digital nomad" lifestyle, moving from country to country every couple of months (after a year or two of workplace experience/credential building).

I've heard that it's actually pretty hard to survive off of online freelance projects alone, as a lot of people want to meet in person and the good jobs require niche specializations.


Is this a realistic aspiration?  Could I support myself without an office job?

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 13:01

no you can't fuck off

stop trying to do things i couldn't do

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 13:01

>>1
That is a realistic aspiration

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/developer-outsources-job-china-watches-cat-videos-day-155148139.html

It was at least

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 13:02

>>2
fuck you fucking shitfucker.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 13:03

>>1
Do as the girl says
http://i25.tinypic.com/28lx99g.jpg

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 13:06

>>1-5
Go back to the discotheque Georg Brand!!!

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 13:14

>>2

What happened?

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 15:56

I AM ANUS

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 16:08

>>8
ME AM JAVASHIT KIKE
YOU ERROR PEOPLE

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 16:44

Bob paid me to come here.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 20:31

remember that jews wont hire non-jews so if you're not a jew either join the fight or kill yourself

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 20:49

>>11
Is that your sorry excuse for being unemployed, Ahmed?

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-08 21:17

>>12
Is that your sorry excuse for being jewish, Chaim?

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 0:05

>>13
No maam.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 10:40

I was really hoping to get a couple of serious responses here, guys...

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 10:56

>>15
Ellipsis are for faggots.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 11:07

>>15
Tough!

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 12:53

Office/corporate: Stable, secure, easier than self-employment/freelance, more vacation, better for raising a family

Self-employment/freelance: Unpredictable, high risk possible reward, lots of hard work, typical work weeks are 60+ hours, absolutely no vacation for the first few years, raising children in these conditions would produce future serial killers and goth hipsters

Take it from someone who's done both. Self-employment is fun, but lots of work. Working for a corporation is stable, but kills your soul. Both have their pros/cons. I recommend trying both at least once in your short life.

As far as nation hopping, moving is expensive and time consuming, so even when I was freelancing I still didn't travel. Working for a big company now I get 2 weeks vacation, and I usually spend 1 of those weeks during the summer taking a cruise or flying to another State. I've still never been to Europe or Asia.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 12:57

[Better idea] [Show prog]

Get out while you still have the chance.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 12:57

>>18
raising a family
Back to the imagereddits, please.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 12:57

My goal is to get my degree and live the "digital nomad" lifestyle, moving from country to country every couple of months, having sex with exotic women (and men occasionally), living in luxurious hotels while working 10 hours a week on a brand new Apple laptop designing Wordpress websites

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 13:42

>>21

You forgot my suitcase full of v-necks and my belief in Jodi Arias's innocence

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 16:12

>>20
Shut it loser. It's your own choice to learn proper social skills and to act humbly in all situations.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 16:16

>>21
oh boy wordpress
I had fun with that for a while.
You can create a theme that works for most of your clients, then just add a few differences within wordpress for each.
Code once, sell 50x.
Throw in some documentation and teach them to use it (arguably the most difficult part of the process) and you're golden.
Only need 30 hours or so customising it and your clients will think you're a computer wizard.
You could charge equivalent of $100 an hour. Killer.
Can even sell them an updated theme each year, or manage the hosting for them.
I feel like a crafty jew now.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 16:50

>>24
If meet you, I will kill you. Thanks for spreading cancer.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-09 16:50

>>23
Drugs, homosexuality and Jewishness are your own choice too. That doesn't make them any less imagereddit, though.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-10 0:45

Every one of us should be considered your competition if you want to freelance. but by all means, try it.  I'll see you behind the Burger King counter soon enough.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-10 0:57

>>23
get out, fagshit

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-10 0:58

>>28
LLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
>EGIN LE SAGE!
>LE FAGGOT
>EGINGOINGWINZIMSIN GRO!!!!! XDDDDD

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 6:46

>>25
I'm miffed. What specifically did you hate?
Is making money and being efficient at it a bad thing?
Was my liberal-arts major tier usage of things like PHP and WP upsetting?
The fact that due to knowledge of design one can make sites for the same profits as a technical site with no design?
something else?

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 10:15

Get the Culver on your home computer.
(use irregex srfi-1 tcp)

(define (get-image page)
 ((lambda (x)
   (if x
    (string-append
     (substring x 0 (- (string-length x) 6)) ".jpg") #f))
  (find (lambda (x) (irregex-search "_m.jpg" x))
   (irregex-split "\"" page))))

(define (get-newer page)
 ((lambda (s)
   (if s (string-append "http://www.flickr.com" s) #f))
  (find (lambda (x) (irregex-search "photosof" x))
   (irregex-split "\'" page))))

(define (write-file path data)
 (with-output-to-file path
  (lambda () (write-string data))))

(define (get-page uri)
 (define (connect host port)
  (call-with-values (lambda () (tcp-connect host port)) list))
 (define (ftake lst a)
  (if (or (null? lst) (eqv? a (car lst))) '()
   (cons (car lst) (ftake (cdr lst) a))))
 (define (fdrop lst a)
  (if (or (null? lst) (eqv? a (car lst))) lst
   (fdrop (cdr lst) a)))
 (define (get-hostname uri)
  (list->string (ftake (cddr (fdrop (string->list uri) #\/)) #\/)))
 (define (get-document uri)
  (list->string (fdrop (cddr (fdrop (string->list uri) #\/)) #\/)))
 (define (strip-header str)
  (define (strip-header-aux lst)
   (cond ((null? (cddr lst)) #f)
    ((and (char=? (car lst) #\newline)
      (char=? (cadr lst) #\return)
      (char=? (caddr lst) #\newline)) (cdddr lst))
    (else (strip-header-aux (cdr lst)))))
  (if (< (string-length str) 3) #f
   (list->string (strip-header-aux (string->list str)))))
 ((lambda (server document)
   (apply
    (lambda (reader writer)
     (display
      (string-append "GET " document " HTTP/1.1\r\n"
       "Host: " server "\r\n"
       "Connection: close\r\n\r\n")
      writer)
     (strip-header (read-string #f reader)))
    (connect server 80)))
  (get-hostname uri) (get-document uri)))

(define (fetch-the-culver newest oldest)

 (define (right-in-the-culver n page uri)
  ((lambda (image-uri file-path)
    (display (string-append image-uri " -> " file-path "\n"))
    (write-file file-path (get-page image-uri)))
   (get-image page)
   (string-append "culver" (number->string n) ".jpg"))

  (if (not (string=? uri newest))
   ((lambda (uri)
     (right-in-the-culver (+ n 1) (get-page uri) uri))
    (get-newer page))))

 (right-in-the-culver 1 (get-page oldest) oldest))

(fetch-the-culver
 "http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/5155673220/in/photosof-leahculver/"
 "http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3263299572/in/photosof-leahculver/")

(Got into a fight with http-client, hence the weird get-page procedure)

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 10:22

>>31
thx man this is awesome!

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 10:43

>>18
I've done both, currently (since, the last ten years or so...) doing the later.
There is another option, -- just fuck working, find a rich mate and leach of her. Think about it, the chances you'll get a nice gig compared to getting a nice girl. They're pretty much the same, quite doable if you stretch your moral a bit.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 11:09

I'd rather stay in academia, earn a shit salary but relax about life.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 15:01

Fuck freelancing and being a loan slave. You should start a real company, create a product, attract some investors. In all other types of employment you are nothing more than a whore, who get abused over and over again until you simply give up. Then they throw you away. It is better at the other side. At least you get bashed to death there.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-20 15:42

>>35
Such is the gift of eloquence, you really ought to get the job of writing speeches for dignitaries.
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