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I can't share it but I think you'd be pleased with my paid code.
It looks quite a bit different, because I don't like writing code the way I know others need it written. It's *work*, not for fun.
Best regards. 
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Work and fun aren't mutually exclusive, but doing something for yourself still feels different somehow
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Sure. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy my work. But when I wrote code for work I write code less fluidly, and to a more rigorous standard, and imposing that standard on myself is work.
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honey the codewitch wrote: My current prospects are pretty good as well. Two of my gigs I got basically because of Code Project.
How does one get a gig via CodeProject?
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I was writing articles here, and somebody that was reading them ended up retaining me to write some code.
Also Codeproject has a sister company? of sorts called ContentLab that produces technical articles for clients, and they hire developers to write content for them.
So I've been doing some of that too.
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modified 27-Nov-20 23:15pm.
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Nice ... congrats
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Thanks! 
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So you have become one of the "consultant" brigade. Having done that for a decade in the mid 90s I can sympathise with your plight. It is an absolute nightmare when you have too much work in the pipeline and it is even worse when the pipeline is empty.
It is very much tougher if you are also raising a family, inconsistent cashflow creates tensions you would not believe. Try to get some sort of work/life balance.
Be wary of expanding you workforce, management requirements expand exponentially beyond 1.
Congrats with getting it started and good luck keeping it going smoothly.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I can sympathise with your plight. It is an absolute nightmare when you have too much work in the pipeline and it is even worse when the pipeline is empty.
I have experienced the latter, but not the former. 
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: It is an absolute nightmare when you have too much work in the pipeline and it is even worse when the pipeline is empty.
And so far there hasn't been an in-between! 
Mycroft Holmes wrote: It is very much tougher if you are also raising a family, inconsistent cashflow creates tensions you would not believe. Try to get some sort of work/life balance.
No issues there, single without kids, plenty of savings and very little monthly expenses
I have an uncle in that situation though and yeah, stressed out, always worrying about the money.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: Congrats with getting it started and good luck keeping it going smoothly.
Thanks!
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I just got a call from Amazon (the robo-lady's voice and caller ID BOTH said so). A purchase of $640,000,000 has been charged to my card!
Why oh why didn't I answer it instead of letting it go to the machine!
What shall I do? What shall I do ?
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Call Microsoft in India and ask them to assist you?
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Too late for that . . . they called on the other phone. It's now US$740,000,000. For something related to data.
Both phones? This is beyond even microsloth in India's powers. Perhaps I ought contact the prime minister. He called last month and needed some emergency funds.
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Slightly off topic, but there is a series on Netflix called Jamtara which is a story about similar issue. I saw it and liked it.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Declare bankruptcy? Leave the country?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I know a Nigerian Prince who can help out. He, apparently has $30million he would like to share with someone. You just need to send him your bank details and you will be a rich man! 
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5teveH wrote: I know a Nigerian Prince who can help out. He, apparently has $30million he would like to share with someone. You just need to send him your bank details and you will be a rich man!
I only help these folks if the payoff is in the billions.
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Ask for a refund before you go any further...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's easy. Ask Siri.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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wait a sec, what .. what ??  come again ...
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... and a courier arrives with a parcel - a Codeproject mug for winning an article contest!
I got two of 'em now!
Thank you CP, the hamsters, everyone who votes in competitions, my agent, everyone I had to sleep with to get this award, ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh my oh my - you have shattered my image of you.
Previously [^] you made it clear you had no need of these mugs. Yet, clearly, you went out of your way to make sure no one else (who may, in fact, need them desperately!) got them, re:Quote: my agent, everyone I had to sleep with to get this award, ...
So yet another of my illusions about the intrinsic good in humanity is shattered.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: illusions about the intrinsic good in humanity
What intrinsic good?
Quote: ... for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ...
(Genesis 8, 21)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Careful ! You may get a flood of replies.
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That's true. Abrahamic scripture holds that there are no true innocents, although at times it suggests that children are. I think the takeaway I get from it is children are *more* innocent but nobody is free from sin.
I'm not religious but I take an interest in this stuff.
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