[cwarrior]

Dom, congratulations on your success. You are really an inspiration to me.

I'm currently employed full-time (also in Canada) and have a lot of down time doing angular/react. I have been taking some steps to get involved in the freelancing world.

After some research I found that WordPress is an easy platform to get started with as a freelancer, so I'm currently learning it.

What would your advice be to me? is going the wordpress route a good idea? How do I get clients?

[yaworsk]

My unsolicited advice - having done something similar with drupal though, not wordpress - choose something you'll enjoy working with, if it's wordpress, go with it (keep in mind there are a lot of "wordpress" developers and by that i mean, people who just grab a bunch of plugins, put a site together and say they have extensive wordpress experience - don't be that person). That all said, you may have better luck with a framework like rails, django, etc. if you want to make a similar transition into product building...

From there, get involved in the community (e.g., attend meetups, drupal has a good one in toronto). I found success finding clients by learning about drupal and recording video tutorials about what i learned to teach others (drupal has a ridiculous learning curve when you are coming from no where).

Hope that helps.

[domgoulet]

That's a very good piece of advice too!

[domgoulet]

Thanks for the kind words!

Wordpress is a good platform, it powers a lot of the websites out there. In fact, our blog and website uses WordPress!

The best way to get your first clients is to talk about your new freelancer career in your network. There is always someone you know who knows someone who needs you. Just speak out loud and you will be heard!