I just got a new Mac Book Pro a couple weeks ago, and although I love it, the biggest adjustment I had to make was getting used to the keyboard. It’s missing a bunch of keys like the side number pad (most laptops don’t have these), but it doesn’t have a page up/down button, the delete button works like backspace and not delete, and there is no home or end buttons. This really bothered me for a while, until I found out their shortcuts.
Jonathan Snook, who I’m a huge fan on, just wrote a post about freelance developers being a recipe for poor software. After reading about the planning and development methodologies of NASA he talks about how freelancers may not be able to create products that are of as high quality as they should be. Although I agree that some freelancers can create poor software – real programmers create higher quality code as freelancers in my mind.
Sales is something that every freelancer has to deal with, unless you launch your career with a range of stable, consistent client work then you’re going to have to go out and find it yourself. There are many ways to find work, but going out to business socials or mixers, and other networking events is the best way to actually meet new business people, and to find new work. For some beginner or inexperienced freelancers who aren’t used to networking it can be really intimidating to go out to some of these events. These tips will help you become more comfortable and even help you find some business.
For the past couple months I’ve had Illustrator set as my default application for swf files. It’s really become a pain because anytime I double click on swf files OSX tries to open them with Illustrator. Then I have to wait for Illustrator to load only for it to tell me that the swf file is incompatible with Illustrator. I’ve got used to right-clicking (or control-clicking) the file to open it with Flash Player, but I finally got around to looking into how to update my default application settings in OSX.
As a freelancer you always need to be on the look out for more work. If you’re like me, you’ve stayed away from all the online job bidding sites like elance, getafreelancer, rentacoder etc. I’ve posted before about my opinion of most online job posting sites, but I am going to be a little clearer now.
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