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Originally Posted by Hitch
The more I read from you, the more it sounds like you SHOULD freelance. I mean...that would enable you to not deal with jobs that would require driving and the like.
Granted, no idea if the market for C# freelancers in your neck of the woods (and, really, why would you be limited to that, anyway? It's a virtual world) is big enough, but...
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It's not big enough. Most companies want to hire someone on premises, as they are very afraid that people tell them "it costs me X hours", while in actuality, it costs them X/2 hours. I for one know that, in 90% of all cases, writing software costs *more* time than you would ever think. There is *always* stuff you can't foresee, or which you have to research, which often costs more time than actually implementing the solution.
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given that you would NOT be dealing with physical limitations like driving and the like...I dunno. Sounds like something I'd investigate, were I you. And, of course, for all I know, you HAVE, and it didn't pan out.
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I have freelanced as a photographer (yeah, with 35% vision), and I was good at that stuff... until I started getting orders from too far away. I had two choices:
1. Hire an assistant (for which I couldn't pay, and people didn't want to pay extra)
2. Not take the job.
If you do 2. a bit too often, people just stop bothering to even ask. (Which is only logical.) Raising prices to be able to afford a second photographer/assistant was impossible, as it was already hard enough getting comissions, at least after 2009, where aunt Maggie and uncle Pete also had decent digital camera's and could do the job for free.
For some people, 'better' does not exist; only 'pay less money' is what counts, and apparently, aunt Maggie and uncle Pete are 'good enough' nowadays. As a working person, you can't compete with free.
For example, with regard to building websites and stuff... do you *KNOW* how many 'web design agencies' there are around here, with 1-5 employees? They make websites for such low prices that it comes down to "install wordpress, install plugins, frack a theme on top of it, change colors and logo, glue everything together, configure, and done", because otherwise, it costs too much time. They basically need to deliver a website every two days to barely survive.
And 'cheap' is everything that counts. Having something custom made is only possible for big companies (the baker in town balks at a €250 website already), and as I said: big companies only hire on premises.