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

[Truman L. <tr...@ha...>]

I only started learning PHP and MySQL in the summer of 2000. But God blessed
me with freelance jobs within six months. Much of my contacts came by
building a relationship with a small Flash design company who needed someone
to help them with database driven sections of sites they were hired to do.
They continue to ask me to do projects. I got to know them because they go
to my church.

Also my church hired me to do a fairly large membership database application
which I did in phplib. This gave me consistent work since December. Now the
pastor wants to have the entire thing reprogrammed in ASP because he's
afraid that if something happens to me, no one will be able to modify the
application or make new reports. There are a bunch of ASP companies in town,
but no PHP companies.

Are there any PHP programmers in Hawaii out there? If there are any reliable
US-based PHP companies that can service this application perhaps I can
persuade my pastor not to port the application. If you're interested, please
email me.

By the way, I just turned down a 20 hr/wk maintenance job for the Chaminade
University site programmed in PHP. www.chaminade.edu That might be a lead
for somebody.

I also got other jobs because of professional contacts in the community
through my previous life before PHP.

For me personal and professional contacts have really paid off, so I haven't
done pursued any other means of getting work.

All the best to you, Nathan.


----- Original Message -----
From: "nathan r. hruby" <na...@ds...>
To: <php...@li...>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:43 AM
Subject: [Phplib-users] [OT] Freelance Question / Guidance


>
> 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?)
>
> I can run a mean linux system too, but linux geeks are a dime a dozen in a
> university town.
>
> Insight, opinions, flames, job offers and anything else welcome.
>
> -n
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