My experience as a freelance web developer for 12 months
Hello and welcome to fivver (#blurred) , the place to find a job in the 2km Deep, Almost
completely dark ocean.
To make use the website, the first thing you have to do is sign up, then hike up Mount
Everest naked, and finally when you're at the top of the snowy -20 degree mountain
You need to wiggle your ear to the Marvel Theme song
All that should only take you half an hour and once you are signed up you can then sign
up one more time.
If you do not sign up the second time then there will be conequences
(Play video of hand going to reach for something then get a saw and bite down)
(Use suspenseful music) (Wake up in hospital) (Be greeted by a fiverr logo telling you in
distorted at first) ("Someone may have viewed your ad", "Someone
may have viewed your ad" What? "you have not completed the sign up process)
# DONE
Now you have completed signing up you can create a gig to show your skills and what
you will do for people This gig is key for your freelance career
but when it inevitably gets 2 views after a year of being on Fiverr.
What you can do is just delete the gig, delete your account, leave fiverr, go to the bank
and exchange two fiverrs for a tenner.
After that you can call businesses and tell them you can make them a website
When they decline your offer because you don't have enough experience for the job even though
it said no experience required, You can try and hack them except you don't
know how, and when you search up a tutorial on youtube on how to do it.,
Definitely Expect a repeat of what happened earlier
3 Years Earlier
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At this point I am watching a youtube video (the ad) I try to close the browser by left
clicking x It does work but there are millions of browsers open
Then I just try and turn off my PC, it doesn't work so I remove the side panel and use the
other turn on it the other way.
When the PC opens the Ad is still there (editing)
Anyway so I spent about a year playing Computer Games and Football but also learned a little
bit about programming.
At the time I liked making fruit smoothies and I wanted a website to buy fresh fruit
so I could make more smoothies so Fruitful was born
It did not function obviously, but it looked cool.
you know how sometimes you think you have made something that is
good and worthy enough to be showed to your friends
and so that is what you do you text it to your friends and they say
It's terrible, boring and you have wasted every millisecond you have spent working on
this.
Next I started to learn JS or Javascript which is short for Just, a, skeleton because that's
what you will be after learning it.
It's a really useful language that can be used to make website snazzier and actually
work
At this point I wasn't even looking to become a freelancer and was just interested in making
websites.
About a year later and I was actually half decent with HTML, CSS and JS
I realised that I wanted to make better cooler websites so I searched and eventually found
Ruby on Rails.
With this new found incredibly powerful technology I could make sites that people could make
accounts on and upload images, videos text etc.
All in a day
#First Paid Project
The first paid project I developed was actually a website made with Wordpress.
I was asked to re design it for £200
Even though I didn't know a single thing about building sites in wordpress.
I took the job because it did not look like much work and i thought I could easily learn
wordpress.
Boy Oh Boy I was wrong.
I was working day and night, 16 hours a day 8 days a month.
Once caffeine entered my system there was no stopping me from finishing this.
and finish it I did 3 Days was all it took and it was the
Easiest and best project ever, because it was my first.
If there was an interview before I did the site it probably would have went like this.
# MAKE GOOD WITH EDITING # jess enters room my hearts start beating
loudly
"Hey Sorry I'm late just, was a bit busy."
"Yeah that's ok I don't mind waiting"
"So it says here you have no prior experience with wordpress"
"Could you tell me a little bit more about that?"
"Well, what's there to tell, I don't have any experience"
"and you do know that you will be using Wordpress on the job"
"Yes" "So you must be very eager to learn it then"
#Start petting Halo " ....... Sorry, what?"
" I said you must be very eager to learn," "ohhh, no not really, but I will if you pay
me" "Ok well sounds just as good as usual"
"You're hired"
This in 2020 was the start of my Freelance web Dev Career
I made gigs on fiverr and upwork along with many other apps and websites,
after a month of trying to find people on these freelance sites I had almost pretty
much given up.
Ready to fufill my plan B as a watchmaker.
But then out of the blue someone messaged me.
They said "Hi , Im Looking to get a Locksmiths /Door
Repair service webpage . My budget is £453
I don't know why everything is in pound I'm an Irishman and we use euros and Meath which
is where the guy is from is in Ireland
I responded with
Interesting, yes I am able to create this for you.
Do you have a logo or brand name?
Yeah so he never responded and that was the end of the conversation.
I am not sure why.
It might be because
I'm just some idiot that was going to take his £400 and in exchange I would give him
The equivalent of an M and M found on the side of the road, but the m and m is actually
a plant and the road is your PVC sewage pipe.
So it might've not been a great deal for him
Anyway After that I set up my own personal website to show my programming portfolio to
people so that I could get more clients because I don't know if you remember but my
Bank account's sum isn't looking to positive.
This is what it looks like.
as a result of not finding any jobs for a whole month I got more into Game development,
I made some shockingly bad games but you know we all have to start somewhere.
I would have pursued game dev even more but a few weeks later and I got a message asking
for a website made, and so I accepted cause if you remember the
skit, I was a bit of a broke boy and needed the money.
(show image of -1500 paypal).
The Convertsation betweeen me and the woman went a little bit like this
"Hey so I want a website done for me and I don't really care how you do it."
"Yeah ok uh What's it about" "Yeah so it's a site for my paintings, I want
to be able to easily put my painting on the site and I'll pay you $1000 to do it"
"ok" "Yeah I need it done in 2 weeks but I'm sure
you will be finished it quicker than that.
The money is already in your account so I expect you to start working now
"Ok" "I will message you when it is done"
"sounds ok to me"
I finished the site and now that I had a few projects under my belt the more jobs kept
coming.
I also had a referral plan so people could refer more clients to me for extra money although
I later scrapped this cause I thought it was a bit tacky.
About 6 months later and some more projects under my belt I got my 5th Website offer which
was a website to
ok well fantastic I think you are are are great, and yeah everthing looks good.
"Great" Now I know we touched on payment a little
bit before but just to wrap up.
"Yeah ok" So are you good with getting paid uhh.
How does 50 sound."
"50, 50 what?"
"50 euros" "stares at him..
I was thinking more in the region of €1500" "oh well, if you're not happy with with that
I'll have to talk to the company treasaurer" "ok go ahead"
"Hey Ali I am speaking with the software engineer about how much are we going to pay him"
"He wants 15" "15?
Like 1500?
Man that is way to much tell him uhh.
tell him 800 is our final offer."
"OK so 800 is our final offer."
"wow" "Do we have a deal?"
"Yep"
I didn't take the job because it was a 12 month project and I would be working like
a dog for not very much money.
also I thought I wasn't capable of doing the job so the next thing I did was learn Ruby
on Rails.
With this new found extremely helpful tool I could build sites with User Authentication
and User uploads in just a few weeks.
and then BANG.
I received a request to build a site using Ruby on Rails for about £500.
I only had a month's experience with Rails but I accepted and honestly I just needed
the money because uhh.
I was in debt (15, like 1500)
it was time to get to work only problem was that I didn't know what I was building yet
so it was time to consult the boss.
Yeah I don't really know I'm just the assistant but I think
you need to build the website.
What's it about
Yeah so the website's name is going to be Advertsworld.
So that will be www.Advertsworld.com
Ah, U said What's it about.
I thought u said, actually never mind.
Yes it's a website where people can search for products.
and then once they search they see a collection of Businesses that sell that product.
I'm not sure if you noticed but I left the meeting because it was raining, and I had
to get to work.
There are 3 Main things to do.
Number 1
User Authentication.
"Bish Bash bosh Devise is my saviour and Done.
Pretty Solid."
2 ALlow users the ability to upload videos of their product"
"ok so for this one the first thing you need to do is restart your PG DB,
, Lots of voices talking at once.
"Try and have your mid life crisis early, buy a new keyboard, wait about 2 months to
understand the code, keep trying until it works.
3.
Filter by Price and Country
the first thing you have to do is cook some eggs and beans.
put the food into a plastic lunchbag then put that into a real bag and don't forget
a spoon
cycle to your local mountain, there you can eat your eggs and beans so that
you have some energy for what is coming.
Then program the filters which should only take you about 2 months, but took me that
times 4.
and finally you are finished, and so am I
my PayPal account is now less in debt
Thank you for watching Goodbye