On 13 May 2011 15:02, Knutsford Software <[email protected]>wrote:
I am a programmer. The point is how do you get paid Android work if you > haven't already done some that you can show people. It is the catch 22 > situation. How have other people on the list manages to get out of it. > If you are programmer then you shall have bunch of apps you wrote for yourself while you'd been learning android. These apps got usually no value for anyone else - these are sort of "hello worlds" with wide variety of complexicity. This gives you knowledge on "how" things shall be done (your "know-how" :). You did not necesairly need to have platform related portfolio (definitely helps if you want to be paid for someone who does not know you at all though), but if you got record of previous activity and this record indicates you had to be knowledgeable enough to had these tasks completed (or customer approaches you by recommendation) then people may approach you asking for doing something on Android. If you are serious on your works, matured enough then you simply know your limits. Customer tells you what he wants, you evalue if your "know how" suffices to have things done and if not, you evaluate if you can elevate your skills to required level. If your answer is "yes" then you take the challenge, then get things done right, then get paid and eventually got something "real" in your porftolio. If your answer is "no" and you hope be ready for next project, you tell your customer "sorry, not this time, I am busy" :), and try to catch up with what you lacked (or at least with hardest parts). Simple as that. Works perfectly fine for me for many years. Regards, Marcin Orlowski *Tray Agenda <http://bit.ly/trayagenda>* - keep you daily schedule handy... *Date In Tray* <http://bit.ly/dateintraypro> - current date at glance... WebnetMobile on *Facebook <http://webnetmobile.com/fb/>* and *Twitter<http://webnetmobile.com/twitter/> * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
