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Career in IT
A couple of months ago I quit my old job as an engineer (for 'engineer' read 'trumped up repair man') to work on a self employed basis with a friend on a project of his. My work with him has largely involved working with vb and access, as well as some html php and javascript. I also have some experience of PASCAL and various versions of C. I did a Physics degree so I'm fairly numerate and I've designed some algorithms in my work as well.
Things have changed with his project and I've decided to go my own way, business-wise. I've already landed my next job through networking and could cite several good references from the work I've been doing over the last couple of months.
I'm now thinking about going into freelance application development/website design/whatever else for small businesses.
I figure there are a lot of people in this industry on this board and I was hoping I might get some insight into what it's like, best way to go about getting contracts, pros and cons etc.
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