Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 12/15/06 12:23

Alfred wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>> In my experience, if you're a web developer, you can earn a living from
>> a mud hut in the Congo if you so choose.
>
> This really only works well when you have no second mortgage, your
> spouse works, and your wife's salary can pay at least for the two cars
> and the house, with your salary handling everything else.

I'm a web developer the sole bread-winner and my house is paid for.
There's a lot of us out there.




> Otherwise, it
> takes time to build up enough projects and momentum to get to a point
> of being able to run a family on what you're talking about. That is,
> unless you wrote a software package that seems to be really hot. That's
> at least what I'm doing for now. I'm tolerating my no-nothing, abusive
> boss for now, doing server operations when I hate it, and then writing
> the "killer app" on the side that I plan to release in a FOSS
> environment (free) and make money from indirectly (or get bought out,
> JBoss style).


I call that the "lottery" strategy. It's like hoping to land a whale
while fishing for shrimp.

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