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Should I disclose that I am freelancing to my employer?

I currently work full time but want to freelance full time one day. I am worried that if I disclose this to my employer, they will think I'm going to leave one day. My employer's policy is that I am allowed to freelance so long as I am not doing…
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Continue college or learn online while freelancing?

Hi I'm Matteo from Italy, i'm in the second year of math college and doing well in it. I have great programming skills and I work in my free time ( few ) as a freelance fullstack web developer, but I know also many non-web programming languages. I'm…
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How to become proficient enough to be able to take freelance projects?

I'm learning programming in C# and ASP.net. When I see projects available on freelancer.com and odesk/upwork for ASP.net, they just make my head spin. I have no clue how on earth would I be able to take and work on solutions of these projects. My…
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Reasonable amount of time for clients to respond to applicants?

What's a reasonable amount of time to expect a client to respond to an applicant before you retract an application for unresponsiveness?
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Getting started as a Qt developer

Scenario (Skip it if you don't care) So I currently work for a company in India which takes out-sourced work and hires local devs to work on them. Now, the situation for most cases (including mine) is that said company charges the clients an…
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How to start working in freelancer

I am an IT student and I know some programming languages. I want to do projects in freelancer. But I dont know how to start , how to get projects from others. First the employer might check my profile whether to give me the project or not. But I am…
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Finding talent agents for software developers

Although my skills with clients have improved over the years, finding new projects and negotiating with clients is still a very time-consuming process. I wouldn't feel too bad about offering 15-20% of the value of a contract, that I probably…
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Advise me - getting started with programming

This is a question I am asking to get help from the community here, I want to be able to work as a freelance SharePoint Developer. It's been few years for me now getting into the development world, I began with C#, but all my knowledge about it is…
Brittany Rutherford
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How to get Supervisor or Senior Developer to check and review your work ?

As being freelancer the biggest drawback for newcomer would be to be supervised for their work. Last day I had interview and they apology to get me hired because I do freelancing. It is almost understood that Freelancer's mostly don't have…
Abdul Rehman
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Need help to land first freelancing job using python

I am a graduation student with some knowledge of Python. I know well upto the object oriented programming and have worked with Tkinter. But that was just the basics.Now, i want to land a freelancing job and i want to know that how much of Python…
Ajay Singh Rana
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What does your average day as a freelancer look like?

I'm a web developer with around 2 years of experience and new into freelancing. I have been reading about freelancing from articles/blogs online and posts here, and have a fair idea of how things work. Just wanted to get a realistic idea of how a…
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