| I like that definition of self-employed. How does one handle collecting payments if the contract work is remote? How do you even begin to market yourself for a contract/consulting project? Unlike a product, you can't place ads, or use traditional advertising, you would instead need to do things like beef up your linkedin/twitter/github? I can see that thought where the actual coding work would only be a small part of it.. and I suppose that's something to think about. The product route sounds very shiny and the one discussed most, but that puts me off. I do not enjoy the thought of writing twitter/linkedin posts to advertise stuff, nor do I enjoy hiring SEO and doing much marketing. My hope is that avoiding the product route will allow me to get away with not having to worry about all this stuff, but I get the feeling there's no escaping it. I'll copy paste some questions I posted to another comment here, if you feel like answering: - how do you seek out new clients, are there job boards/discussion boards for these types of jobs? Or perhaps you just reach out to companies that seem to be doing interesting work? - how do you prove to them that you can earn their contract? - how do you even begin to match the project requirements and what you can bring to the table, and if needed, bring / integrate an additional member/team/contractor? Is that handled by the project manager at the company? |