Re: [Phplib-users] [OT] Freelance Question / Guidance

[John L. <jl...@av...>]

I know how you feel. I'd love to make a living with php and linux (LAMP) 
but the jobs don't seem to be there. There seems to be a few more on the 
West Coast USA however than the East coast. I keep hearing, especially at 
the recent San Diego Open Source convention, that linux is here to stay but 
back here in Wash, DC there's not even a php users group.

Gee, maybe I should start one.

John Lewis


php developer http://www.livingpages.com/



  nathan r. hruby wrote:

>Ok..
>
>I hate my job.  It makes me miserable.  This has been so for a while but
>has gotten to the point that I need to sneak off to the server room to
>write an email.  Oh wait.. Sorry almost went a'ranting..
>
>So my question to you, the best folks of the php world, is how many of you
>are making a living as freelance php coders?  Is it possible to make a
>living doing this or am I setting my self up for eviction?  In the past
>I've gotten the odd offer for freelance work associated with phpSlash,
>which I've always been too busy to take, but I'm pretty sure that phpSlash
>wouldn't pay the bills -- is there other stuff out there, espically in the
>post-dot-bomb?  If you are making it, what stratigies have worked for you?
>Where have you picked up work?  (things posted online, mailing lists,
>word-of-mouth?)