> This might be beside the point - but if you are an RoR developer, you can > earn more than a google job just by freelancing. Not necessarily true, but close.
> so I could work on my weekends and gain a few notches in the career ladder. Most freelancers who work alone at home and don't do anything else outside of their billable work tend to stagnate and aren't the best programmers (IMHO). The good ones are good because they also work on open source and learn from other, better programmers. Basically, if you freelance, you won't learn much from your billable work and if you're serious about helping your career, you want to learn as much as you can. If you're looking to learn, identify programmers you'd like to learn from working on popular open source projects that are small enough that your pull requests will get their personal attention. Then try to contribute enough to get commit. Not only do you learn a *lot* about writing good code, putting that open source project on your resume will reap rich rewards. As a case in point, we only hire fresh grads if they have demonstrable open source experience on their resumes. You also need to take a call on how much time you have - I would suspect that you can't study, do open source *and* freelance. > Replacing ROR with anything suitable and considering the earning to be *not > only money* You will pretty much earn only money. You will learn a fair amount, but on the business side of things - and that's only if you look at the whole proposition as a business venture with two assets, your time and your knowledge. Run it haphazardly and you'll come out of it with a decent amount of cash and little else. I'm happy to answer any questions involving actual numbers off-list if you're interested in the business side of things. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://blog.sidu.in On 31 August 2011 08:45, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a student currently enrolled to my PG course in Anna University, > Chennai. I wanted to take up some sort of part time job (read as > programming) somewhere here in chennai, so I could work on my weekends and > gain a few notches in the career ladder. But a conversation on the IITM > Hackers list gave me a new perspective. The line read: > > This might be beside the point - but if you are an RoR developer, you can >> earn more than a google job just by freelancing. >> > > Replacing ROR with anything suitable and considering the earning to be *not > only money*, I was made to think about freelancing. And freelancing ofcourse > had its own +and - like multiple clients, varied projects, flexible working > hours(not just weekends), also strict time constraints that might be bad > during those sem ends..etc., > > So I really wanted some expert advice on which way to go. Kindly state your > views, experiences so that I could learn a few things and decide on my path. > > > -- > Regards > P.Arunmozhi > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
