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

[Tarique S. <ta...@sa...>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, nathan r. hruby wrote:

Hello Nathan,

Please don't feel dejected - these are bad times ... ...

> 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

Yes it is possible - I started out more than 2 years ago as a single
person, one computer in the bedroom corner doing PHP.

Today I employ 7 people ( 5 are programmers), have a full fledged though
very sparsely furnished office - and we do nothing but *PHP*

The first half of last year was damn good BUT we did not get any work from
Nov2000 to end April2001 - we exhausted our reserves but we survived - I
did not lay off any of my boys, they are hand picked and trained by my
humble self.

Since April we have had a steady trickle of jobs which were meeting our
overheads - however in past couple of months we have bagged projects which
if completed and *paid* for will put us in firmly in black.

So how was this possible... ...

A large thanks goes out to my wife (who deservedly is the CEO) She
meticulously applied to every freelance site replied to the dumbest
queries by clients and offered 10 hours of work on no obligation basis!!!

For almost 6 months all she use to do was follow even the smallest 
project, being online on a dial-up 5-7 hours at a stretch... ...

She has a long list of these e-lance sites - mail to her at
sw...@sa... if you want the URLs

Plus - I wrote a lot, for magazines, sites, attended conferences, gave
free PHP tutions at the local LUG, created GPLed software sent press guys
the URLs to free stuff  - all this she said was a PR excercise 

So as she says - "You have to keep at it!!" 

Cheers
Tarique
P.S. get married if you are not already ;-)


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