 Should you become a freelance programmer in 2021? Well, you picked the right video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by Digitalink Academy, your number one source for programming fast and get to that six figure salary you desire. Our Academy have a wide range of courses including our 30 day lunch pad course series which includes SQL, Python and JavaScript. We also have a programming interview course and a mentor membership program and much, much more. When you sign up, you get free access to our community of professional developers who willing to help you take your career to the next level. So let's take the next step and sign up for our free seven step guide so we can help take your career to the next level and start learning programming fast with our free seven step guide. So click the link below and I'll see you guys in the guide. All right guys, the quick answer is yes. You should become a freelance programmer in 2021. It has a ton of benefits and my perspective of freelance development changed over years as far as just my approach and how I recommended to people and I wanted to kind of talk about that process so that we can pick a right solution for you so that you can know to pursue a career as a freelance developer. So as I was saying guys, the quick answer is yes. I even went to the extent of actually changing my seven step guide around this subject so that you guys can know how to approach becoming a developer and find solutions for you. So first of all guys, all of you guys think you want to be software developers, software freelance developers, Python, SQL, JavaScript and you really haven't looked yourself in the mirror to say, do you want to do this? So I used to go in with all these massive courses trying to teach any and everything about programming and notice that I didn't get the response that I was looking for and over the couple of months and years I quickly determined that a lot of people say they want to do something but they actually their actions speak differently. So we want to make sure before we go way into detail we want to customize a solution, a plan specifically for you guys so that you can become the freelance developers that you want. A lot of people may think, hey, it's just freelance work. I can just do it on the side, which is great by the way but the way I like to explain freelance work you work on your own terms that can be the amount of hours, where you work, all this stuff you have complete control over and if you get fired by some company you can actually just go get a known because you got options guys and you're freelancing you can actually pick and parse the working style that you want. So don't just think of freelancing that you're working on a beach or you're working Silicon Valley on a park bench or something like that. It can go beyond that. It's part of it but it's a lot more guys and I'm going to explain some of these points to you guys. So I have some points here and I want to make sure I go over the core pieces and not just give general fluff like a lot of channels do and I want to make sure I cover this. So at the end of the day guys regardless if you're freelancing or doing regular program work it all starts with business projects. Your clients are the one who's going to be handing you a check handing you cash, handing you money. So you have to make sure the code that you put in place is going to help them make more money so that you can justify these big projects so that you can charge more and more money. A lot of you guys don't get that around your head. You think it's all about writing code which writing code is a part of it but at the end of the day if you ain't completing projects you ain't making no money either way. We'll talk specifically in a freelance case and we'll talk more about actually getting the clients further in the discussion but I want to make sure we cover the fact that it's still going to be project based guys. Is you think writing code is the end I'll be off is far from the truth. You got to be able to come in and be able to land these clients in a way you speak their language in order for you can get that freelance work and then you build a relationship so that you can make consistent money. A lot of you guys too caught up in Fiverr in a lot of these one off platforms which I'm not going to knock them. I use them myself but you got to understand the best clients are going to be the ones that reoccurring, reoccurring, reoccurring. So that was going to be the best freelance clients. So like I always say guys, number three, learn the basics for free. That's a point I wanted to cover here today. A lot of you guys going to boot camps go spend all these money on degrees and don't really haven't really done your due diligence to find out if programming's right for you. That's why I always say learn the basic fundamentals for free before you start investing too much time and too much money in this. Not to say you can't go buy a little cheap course or something like that. All I'm saying is I preach this and I sell courses and I'm revamping a lot of my courses to say, hey, go learn the basics for free. And once you come to my course you have a better understanding of coding and you have an approach that you can get more out of my courses. Instead of coming to my courses don't know the fundamentals and I'm just trying to get, you know, you're just getting money from me. Yeah, my stuff is good but I still want you to know the fundamentals coming in so we can get to what we're gonna put you over the top versus your competitors who still aiming for those freelance gigs you're trying to get as well guys. So it's so important that you guys do that. Number four, first of all find a plan. You gotta get a plan. My seven step guide below is gonna do that for you guys. It's gonna really put you in a position to win and the best thing about it is it's free. It really put the anxious perspective for you so that you can start your career as freelance software developer and really put yourself in a position to win regardless if you're PHP, SQL, JavaScript or Python we got something for you. So link's in below to get that free guide and if you already signed up for the free guide and downloaded your copy go ahead and support the channel and buy some courses or either just do donations. Link below for everything guys so pick that up. That being said guys, let's get to the bread and butter here which is the coding projects. You guys probably gonna get tired of me talking about coding projects. Projects, projects, projects and not just these lab calculator apps or something that you're doing straight out of a textbook or something like that. I'm talking about a real world project and this is where it's gonna take you from being a potential programmer or a junior developer to a senior level lead developer. This one thing right here guys because a lot of you guys get wrong what you guys get wrong is and we'll talk about our resume and our next step but at the end of the day if you can't showcase your skills and how you gonna make that client better or make their life a little better as far as just making more money or saving them time doing a specific function with software where's the money? Where value you bring to the table and that's the type of mindset I wanna get you guys to freelance developers because you need it the most. Unfortunately, W2 employees can hide behind other people don't necessarily deliver value every day and get paid every week or every two weeks or every month whatever the interval of your paycheck. Freelance developers, the minute a client determine that you're not providing value and you cut just like that. So we have to be on our toes and make sure we consistently provide value so that we can demand that higher and higher pay and actually start that recurrent revenue from that client so that once we get about three or four of those clients we are rolling in the dope. So that's gonna be our strategy here guys in the real world projects. We talk about that in the seven step guide as well so that you can position yourself with a niche that's gonna allow you to stand up stand out from the competition. It's getting so bad guys. When your resume, people looking at your resume they're looking straight at the experience in the projects because we can be picky now. The hiring managers, we can be picky. We can say, hey, you know, you got a boot camp you got a CS degree but I'm not seeing that you can apply those skills in the real world. And if you can demonstrate that in your resume you're definitely gonna get an interview. And if you can confirm that in interview you guaranteed almost to get a job. So it's very important that you guys showcase your skills the right way and put you in a position so that you can stand out from everybody else guys. Number six is programming, resume and interview prep. Like I was telling you guys before all these projects, you're gonna hear project, project, project real world business project. You see that? Even as a freelancer, it matters because it really separates you from all the inexperience I call them boot camp developers who know about programming who can write code but they don't know how to apply it in real world and solve problems. So this is gonna be important for you guys. We talk about, it's so sad guys. Let me put it to you like this. You can have a senior level developer in writing code writing code. Me personally, I don't necessarily consider you a senior level developer based off your time. I'm looking at the impact of the projects because you can have somebody who just come in and hit the ground running on business project and get to that senior level within a year. And you can have people who, you know be in that for 10 years and still doing just basic scripting. And I don't necessarily categorize that my personal self as senior level developer because of the impact of the project. But I digress. But at the end of the day guys, you can have these people who know a ton about programming writing code and get an interview and won't get the job and lose it over a person who don't have nearly the same amount of experience but they showcase the projects and the business projects that they solve and they come in and say, oh, you use a software like this. Man, we can put in a couple of scripts in there that automate that process so that we can more get you focused on the revenue generating processes so that you can identify this with your clients, your drivers and all that, your business join. That's the kind of stuff they want to hear guys. That's the stuff they know, hey, you know, I got this problem. He gonna put in code. That's gonna fix it and gonna get me more money and more time. That's gonna get you the money guys. I can't stress that enough guys. So I'm gonna hit that home as well. And last but not least guys is finding programming gigs. I'm gonna probably save that for the seven step guide going to detail. So go ahead and go to that. But at the end of the day guys, you got Fiverr, you got Upwork, you got all these online platforms that are very competitive. In my seven step guide, I cover how to stand out and there's a better way to get clients instead of going to these platforms exclusively. So go to my seven step guide and it's actually number five, I think. Step number five is gonna allow you to find the best way to attract and find these freelance clients. So guys, just to cover everything again, make sure you start with that first business project. Let's get that on that resume so that we can get that interview and we're gonna pretty much spend most of that interview talking about how we're gonna solve their problems instead of can you do the job, instead of if you're a good fit. The conversation of your interview when you're doing freelance work should be the amount of money you're gonna charge. They already know the value. They wanna confirm what you put on your resume and how much you're gonna charge and come up with some terms and make sure everything's good to go. So like, subscribe to the content. If you have additional questions, comment below. Guys, tell me what you like about what I said or do you disagree with me? Comment below in the comment section. Let's start a conversation. Like, subscribe to the content. I'll put a link to my seven step guide here so go ahead and get that, it's free. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.