n3rdy wrote: How one can be successful freelance programmer? Depends on what you mean by success. But if that somehow embodies making money then a primary requirement is that the programmer must learn how to 'sell'. They must be able to find clients and convince them to pay for the service. Second criteria is that one must learn how to manage the business side. That includes being able to provide good estimates, ones that really represent all of the work. And being able to manage clients which means keeping them satisfied without giving them so much free labor in the process that one fails. It helps also to be able to walk away from the clients that just will not work.

I am in the same situation as you, no one talks to me either, because I am the only person in the office (I have a start-up company with just me in it :) ). But I actually like the silence, so that I can work on the product with full concentration.

contract work : High salary, 4 Hours week, but family and friends are always working... then kill time writing codeproject article, and reading book... Curiously, this have the effect to make you even more valuable, so you can work even less. :p Not every contractor experiences that, I am lucky I guess, but I'm sure no private & Gov job get that :p

:sigh: No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |

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Are these "Social Programmers"?

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