| > My question is: can one be self-employed fixing bugs? If so, what are some effective strategies to make it a reality? As a former freelance developer, I think you might be able to make this work. I would guess that: - You'd need to do a lot of work to find clients and build a reputation. "Fixing bugs" is a specialized niche. - You'd probably work on lots of small projects, which means lots of deal closing and high daily/weekly rates. - You'd need to look for projects in severe trouble. - You'd need to fix not just the bugs, but the underlying organizational processes that are causing the project to be buggy. But if you're willing to write articles about debuggung, set up automatic bug reporting tools, collect bug metrics, and teach teams to do 5 Whys/root cause analysis, I think you could probably find a market out there somewhere. There are always buggy projects in trouble, and some number of companies would pay an expert to help save an important project. You'd still spend half your time running the business, not debugging (or even training people to debug). Of course, there are probably much easier ways to make a living as a freelance software developer. But if you enjoy "debugging" organizational issues as much as you like finding software bugs, there's probably a market here. |