Hey Fastlaners,
Just needed to release something that was heavy on my mind about a new direction I'm taking.
I had to choose either between:
1) Taking a full-time job (had 1 job offer so far) to pay my living expenses as I wait for my programmer to finish up Freelanceful (which is another problem story in itself - progress thread), then run Freelanceful on the side after work.
or..
2) Use last of savings, fund 2 months of living until end of January, and learn Ruby on Rails full-time, 8 hours a day.
I ultimately decided to go with #2 and learn Rails. I turned down my job offer today and have outlined my journey and objectives for the next 2 months. This is what I am hoping happens..
- Hack away and create a couple web apps to add to my portfolio.
- Make a good personal website & oDesk/Elance/Freelanceful profiles.
- Pick up either a junior level Rails job, or freelance work by end of January.
- Finish up Freelanceful myself.
I also forgot to mention one of the best (and respected) Rails developer here in Nashville is going to help me and mentor me twice a week with my progress. All in all; by going this route, I can get Freelanceful finished up and launched & during that time Freelanceful picks up traction, I can do Rails work and make $30/hour. Which being a Rails programmer has ALOT more opportunity than a designer.
And if Freelanceful doesn't do well, Rails developers commonly make $60-70K salaries with 1 year of experience, so I can actually have a nice career possibly. I'm also hoping to pick up some freelance design projects here and there to supplement income as well.
Anyways, just thought I'd share how my professional progress is going.
Thanks for listening,
James F.
Just needed to release something that was heavy on my mind about a new direction I'm taking.
I had to choose either between:
1) Taking a full-time job (had 1 job offer so far) to pay my living expenses as I wait for my programmer to finish up Freelanceful (which is another problem story in itself - progress thread), then run Freelanceful on the side after work.
or..
2) Use last of savings, fund 2 months of living until end of January, and learn Ruby on Rails full-time, 8 hours a day.
I ultimately decided to go with #2 and learn Rails. I turned down my job offer today and have outlined my journey and objectives for the next 2 months. This is what I am hoping happens..
- Hack away and create a couple web apps to add to my portfolio.
- Make a good personal website & oDesk/Elance/Freelanceful profiles.
- Pick up either a junior level Rails job, or freelance work by end of January.
- Finish up Freelanceful myself.
I also forgot to mention one of the best (and respected) Rails developer here in Nashville is going to help me and mentor me twice a week with my progress. All in all; by going this route, I can get Freelanceful finished up and launched & during that time Freelanceful picks up traction, I can do Rails work and make $30/hour. Which being a Rails programmer has ALOT more opportunity than a designer.
And if Freelanceful doesn't do well, Rails developers commonly make $60-70K salaries with 1 year of experience, so I can actually have a nice career possibly. I'm also hoping to pick up some freelance design projects here and there to supplement income as well.
Anyways, just thought I'd share how my professional progress is going.
Thanks for listening,
James F.
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