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Originally Posted by RDFrame
Let me give you a bit of advice. It's almost 2011, so honestly, I wouldn't worry about trying to be a freelancer anymore. Either get a 9-5 office job, or start a small software company offering an exceptional product that people want. Globalization has taken its effect, plus the recession, so not many people are going to contract out to an unknown developer at say $80/hour these days. Many are going for $15/hour Filipinos these days.
Don't look for clients in this fashion. Build a wanted product and small software company / site, push the product out, provide exceptional customer service, and build your customer base from there. If you can accomplish this, and do it well, you'll have more high-end clients than you can handle. It's an uphill battle to come in as a nobody, and say, "Hey, I'm the best, and I'm here! Give me work!".
You're best off to establish a company, product, and reputation. Otherwise, people will be expecting to pay 20% of what you're worth (if you're actually as good as you say you are).
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Now we are respecting each others, i like that
I know that would be the best course of action, maybe i will, but again, i'm still not looking forward of building a "software development" company.
Right now i'm interested in finding a couple of nice, "complex" projects to work in, take one or two per month, and done
i already got one very interesting, lets see if he can afford it :P I would have to make a sort of distributed script among different servers which is constantly checking the servers load and re-distributing load, the rest of the script its easy, i like those sort of coding/networking projects :P
btw, i also like very much coding crawlers/robots ;)