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Almost exactly two weeks ago to the minute, I was made redundant with no forewarning. Two days ago I had two job offers in hand, one of which I accepted. I resume working on Monday.
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One of the first things that I did was to register for several freelancing sites, where I bid on several jobs. While I spent very little time in that space, it was enough to know that freelancing as a developer is not particularly viable. What I found was that rates were often very low, and …
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most of the contracts that I saw were for fixed price, but the contracts had very little detail at all. A very bad combination.

The sites that I registered with also allow you to pay to promote your bid or similar mechanics for pay to play.

I’m glad that I don’t need to do this to survive.
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Honestly, I think anyone would do better being a greeter at Bunnings or BigW (or Walmart for those in the US).
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