self-employed

How to become a programmer for hire?

Anyone know how to successfully start your own business as a programmer for hire. Consultant or contractor or whatever you want to call it. ...

How Much Experience Required Before I Become Self Employed?

I have a dream. I want to work from home and eventually form a partnership with other programmers and have sort of a virtual office where we work on a (one or more) software products, all of us from home. My question is, how much experience with a 'real' programming job would you expect/want me to have before taking me seriously? At the...

How do you make yourself stand out as a consultant?

How do you make yourself as a consultant stand out from the others? It's frustrating trying to learn how to market yourself when everyone and their brother is advertising themselves as an SEO expert and/or website developer. I don't want to come off as elitest, but I've seen some sites done by local companies that, frankly, would mak...

How authentic is PTC(paid to click) websites ?

I know this is not a directly an SO question but as i am planning to cut my programming hours and maintain my income , as i have exams coming and need more attention to my studies i heard few people claiming these sites as fraud and some stating that it really brings out the cash .How genuine are these paybacks ? Expect answers from ex...