When I made the switch from code monkey to well… freelance code monkey there were a lot of considered benefits but most importantly was being able to work on projects I want to work on instead of being handed projects/designs I had to work on. In a similar vein, today I asked myself the question [...]
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March 5, 2010
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Will Code For Travel Funding
By Hort in Career Development, Freelance, TravelAnd so it begins… Now that I’m situated in my (at least semi-permanent) house in Buenos Aires, the time is officially upon us — I’ve made the switch to finding freelance work. I started by emailing some of my previous employers as well as submitting offers on choice Craigslist ads that suit my development style [...]
February 8, 2010
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Preceeding a career of full-time Freelance
By Hort in Branding, Career Development, FreelanceThe switch to full-time freelance brings a lot of changes to an otherwise employees fairly predictable schedule. Working a traditional ‘job’ You work to pay bills, buy food, and entertain yourself. You put in 8 hours (or in our industry many more), you go home, you eat, work, sleep, roll-over, hit snooze, eat, work, sleep, [...]
February 8, 2010
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Stop Thinking, Start Blogging
By Hort in Branding, Career DevelopmentAs with any writing profession, often the largest roadblock blogger’s face is lack of inspiration. Content is king in the blog world — any blogger knows that — So when faced with the task of creating great content from an uninspired brain… well, the phrase “you can’t squeeze blood from a stone” comes to mind. [...]
Tags: bloggers block, blogging, writers block
February 1, 2010
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When the stars align (I just won $100!)
By Hort in Career DevelopmentYesterday I arrived at my temporary residence (my parents) before taking off to Buenos Aires on February 16. My life goal of being self-employed is becoming a reality before my eyes; the clock seems to somehow be ticking that little bit faster than usual… tick.. tick.. There are a lot of aspects to think about [...]
January 23, 2010
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Commence Operation: NOTONGUE
By Hort in Career Development, Freelance, TravelAs of February 17th, I have no tongue. Not so much physically as metaphorically: I’ve decided to move to Argentina. The idea is to move for three months and use the opportunity to finally put myself out into the world of freelance again, it’s been 5 years since I was freelancing full-time and the World/Internet’s come [...]
January 16, 2010
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Ground Zero
By Hort in Branding, Career DevelopmentAfter 5 years of a coming soon page and nine revisions of this website never going live due to the death of inspiration, I have given up the dream of a design being perfect and going with the last design, which was created well over three years ago. Sometime’s life just feels that busy. What a coincidental segue…