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Kevin Marois wrote: where do you go to find your gigs?
Short answer: from people that I know. Never have gotten side work from any "contract" website, they're all pretty bad, IMHO.
Long answer:
Clients that resurface or people that I've worked with in the past that change jobs and end up asking me to do some contract work.
Otherwise, there's an occasional hit (less frequently nowadays) from someone that's read and article of mine.
I once got what ended up being a long term gig (but overall only a couple hours a week) simply by going to a pot luck and chatting with someone about software architecture, discovering we had very similar views (now THAT was a unique situation!)
However, that gig led to a relationship with another company where I ended up building a website for, which was sweet because I built the site from scratch in C# (et al) rather than trying to maintain/understand someone else's Ruby code.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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What Marc said. Doubly so for avoiding the gig sites. I'd suggest poking around various user groups and tech meetings.
A few years back, I attended a Microsoft day event for their embedded products. It was a presentation of what new stuff they were rolling out (conveniently neglecting to mention that they were about to throw us into the river with no paddle or boat, but I digress...). Anyway, over lunch, a few of us were sitting around the table, and one gentleman turned out to be a mid-level manager for a local VAR in the Atlanta area. They had numerous opportunities to deploy custom kiosk solutions across the area, but they could not find anyone to do the code. I still regret not being able to follow up on that opportunity.
Remember that some of this is marketing. Using acquaintances helps the marketing, but getting out there cannot be replaced.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It always comes down to networking, I hated it when that meant hardware, now that it refers to social stuff I loathe it even more. If you are going to get work for yourself (as apposed to contract or employment) you are going to have to get out there and hustle.
Friends, relatives, acquaintances and especially business colleagues and contacts are all potential sources. You need to work them, make sure they all know what you do and that you are interested in custom work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Typically it's word-of-mouth via friends and former coworkers. I don't have an especial need for the money, so I let the work come to me.
Software Zen: delete this;
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...when you look up federal and state law around taking lunch and rest breaks in case you need to make a defense. (Which of course is futile because you've already lost the perception battle.)
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Sounds like it's time to dust off the old resume just in case or to preemptively switch jobs before the lawsuit happens.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Reminds me of the time I worked contract for a guy who said I had to be there from 9 to 5, and I had to take lunch, but could not leave the building... I pointed out some other stuff he was doing wrong, in an honest effort to help him improve his business. When he told me I didn't know what I was doing he no longer had a 'contractor' (or any other help!).
Best wishes for your future endeavors!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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You know you're time is coming to an end
I thought only millennials made that mistake...?! 
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dandy72 wrote: I thought only millennials made that mistake...?!
 The problem is I was going to write "You know you're approaching the end when..." but changed the subject line without correcting the syntax error. 
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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This is as good an excuse as I've ever heard.
I'll have to remember it for my own use.
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dandy72 wrote: I thought only millennials
Perhaps he's from a previous millennia?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: millennia
Millennium. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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He may be older than you think... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: He may be older than you think
But, his thoughts are so fresh !
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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He just recently update himself to version 7.3 so
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Send Me To Heaven[^]
It was - unfortunately - banned from the App Store, so iPhone users can't join in the fun ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: so iPhone users can't join in the fun
I guess this was the only way for iPhone users to have fun with their phone, it had to be banned one way or another.
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Is this the revenge of Samsung?
I'll go get my coat
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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windows 10 version out yet?
- x users need fun even more than iphonites.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Might be a bit difficult to throw the keyboard, mouse, both monitors, and the system box at the same time...
And both the the Windows Phone users are too busy trying to find a reason why they bought one... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If someday they make a phone that can dual-boot both Android/iOS and Windows Phone/Win10, I think it will become more popular. If users can switch to Windows at work for better built in support for office tasks and then switch back to the more user friendly phone OS's at the end of the day, I think that sales would improve.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I have a tablet that dual boots Android / Win10, and I have to say that I use it almost exclusively in Win10 despite expecting it to be the other way round when I bought it. But Android / iOS? Can't see the Fanboise ever using Android, and I can't see Android users doing much but swearing (and laughing) at IOS if they try to use that.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was alluding more toward that work/life balance (or split) thing with a Win10\Android phone or a Win10\iOs phone. Windows 10 for work and Android/iOS for personal. Companies and people might be more inclined to use Windows 10 on their phone for work if it was 100% separate from their personal data and apps.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I just tossed my Lumia 735. It didn't go very high, but it nearly reached escape velocity before smashing against the wall. The I came over to the dark side and got an iPhone.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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