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Tiia · 2022-04-04T02:35:50.871Z

Ten years ago I worked as a freelancer building websites with WordPress. I created custom Designs/Templates with Photoshop, HTML, PHP, and CSS. My main customers were people who wanted to switch from their static HTML page to a system where they coul...

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It is so great to hear from the people who are already so experienced in this field.

Sadly, I don't see myself in freelancing, mostly because I get the feeling from checking out the available jobs that back end is not given to freelancers, and my friends have also told me that it is a bad route for someone like me.

Thank you for sharing this with us Tiia. I don't have a lot of freelancing experience but I can confirm the expectations can be too high!! 😊

I see the high expectations as a good thing - it often calls for professionalism and the high rates that come with it.

Eleftheria Batsou It's already high! Salary gets more higher if you need a skill which is not very common but needed. For example, there are not so many C++ programmers in the world as Python, so your salary might increase for a C++ project.

Personally, I love that the only real complexity in grid/flex is learning it - not learning all the bugs and cross-browser issues you needed to learn for floats and tables...

I usually discriminated Internet Explorer and everyone using it. At some point you had to make a decision. 😅

What a great article coming from an expert! Thanks for sharing your story.

Interesting 👏🏽

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